Warning: something weird with void* types.

[Fernando Nasser]

I can't believe nobody has anything to say about this...


Fernando Nasser wrote:
> 
> FYI, we are having to make a change in Insight to cope with a funny
> thing that recently appeared in GDB.
> 
> The target type of a void* does not have the type name set to "void" any
> longer.
> 
> (gdb) p *type
> $3 = {code = TYPE_CODE_PTR, name = 0x0, tag_name = 0x0, length = 4,
>   upper_bound_type = 0, lower_bound_type = 0, objfile = 0x854e998,
>   target_type = 0x8bcd5d8, pointer_type = 0x0, reference_type = 0x0,
>   cv_type = 0x8bcd61c, flags = 1, nfields = 0, fields = 0x0,
>   vptr_basetype = 0x0, vptr_fieldno = -1, type_specific = {arg_types =
> 0x0,
>     cplus_stuff = 0x0}}
> (gdb) p *target
> $4 = {code = TYPE_CODE_VOID, name = 0x0, tag_name = 0x0, length = 1,
>   upper_bound_type = 0, lower_bound_type = 0, objfile = 0x854e998,
>   target_type = 0x0, pointer_type = 0x8bcd61c, reference_type = 0x0,
>   cv_type = 0x8bcd5d8, flags = 0, nfields = 0, fields = 0x0,
>   vptr_basetype = 0x0, vptr_fieldno = -1, type_specific = {arg_types =
> 0x0,
>     cplus_stuff = 0x0}}
> 
> As you see, TYPE_CODE_VOID does not have a name anymore, at least when
> it is the target of a (void *) type..
> 


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