64bit pointer

Tom Tromey tromey@redhat.com
Fri Sep 4 15:47:00 GMT 2009


>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> writes:

Jan> Yes.  Until GDB forbids dereferencing numeric arguments as `int *'
Jan> which IMHO is more confusing than convenient.  [Would a patch be
Jan> approved?]

This behavior does seem strange to me.

GDB as a project seems to be somewhat conservative about changing things
like this, though.  I don't think I could predict whether anybody would
object, you pretty much have to submit a patch and see who speaks up.

Tom



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