RFC: Print the type of a C value in one more case
Kevin Buettner
kevinb@redhat.com
Thu Mar 10 22:14:00 GMT 2005
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 12:45:29 -0500
Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
> This is something that constantly bugs me when debugging GCC. GCC has
> typedefs for "tree" and "rtx" which are both pointers to structs. When
> you print either, you just get "$1 = 0xbf000100" without any indication of
> the type of the variable; but normally GDB prints types for pointers.
> This comes from a missing check_typedef in c_value_print.
>
> There were a couple of ways to fix it; I chose to print the typedef rather
> than what the typedef pointed to. The only difference in the testsuite is
> in one objc test, which perfectly illustrates the desired change:
>
> -$1 = 0x0
> +$1 = (id) 0x0
>
> Any comments?
I think printing the typedef is fine. FWIW, this has annoyed me in the
past too, so I'm all in favor of your change.
Kevin
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