Formatting of function pointer value

Vladimir Prus ghost@cs.msu.su
Fri Jul 8 08:51:00 GMT 2005


Vladimir Prus wrote:


> the value of *p3 is printed like this:
> 
>    (gdb) print *p3
>    $1 = {int (int)} 0xb7ee6e9c <__DTOR_END__+4>

Even more strange is this:

   (gdb) print p3 
   $2 = (int (*)(int)) 0xb7ee6e9c <__DTOR_END__+4>
   (gdb) print *p3 
   $3 = {int (int)} 0xb7ee6e9c <__DTOR_END__+4>

Why does formatting of the type different in the second case, and uses
braces instead of parenthesis?

- VOlodya




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