Re: Warning: something weird with void* types.

[Daniel Berlin <dan at cgsoftware dot com>]

--On Thursday, May 10, 2001 12:44 PM -0400 Fernando Nasser 
<fnasser@redhat.com> wrote:

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


Well, a quick looksie shows the only thing that could be causing this that 
i immediately see is in stabsread.c

You are using STABS, I assume, right?

Can you verify it doesn't occur with DWARF2, so I can generate a fix for 
the problem, or if it does occur with DWARF2, look elsewhere?

>
>
> 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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