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Re: Problem with virtual function pointers


Is there any news on that?

Corinna

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 05:18:24PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 10:26:52AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > There's your bug, right on schedule.  Look at the line:
> >   addr = unpack_pointer (lookup_pointer_type (builtin_type_void), valaddr);
> > 
> > Recommend using builtin_type_void_func_ptr instead of
> > lookup_pointer_type (builtin_type_void).  Does that fix it?
> 
> Yes, it does fix the problem.  Thank you!
> 
> However, I don't understand why it's done this way.  The incoming
> type into this function is already correct AFAICS (well, this time,
> I didn't get it when I wrote my first posting, apparently).  type
> is a TYPE_CODE_PTR to a TYPE_CODE_METHOD to TYPE_CODE_VOID.
> 
> So, from my point of view the correct call would just be
> 
>   addr = unpack_pointer (type, valaddr);
> 
> Why isn't type just used as is?
> 
> Btw., I've just ran the full c++ testsuite again and using just type shows
> no regressions (for xstormy16).
> 
> 
> Corinna
> 
> -- 
> Corinna Vinschen
> Cygwin Developer
> Red Hat, Inc.
> mailto:vinschen at redhat dot com

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Red Hat, Inc.
mailto:vinschen at redhat dot com


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