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Re: Formatting of function pointer value

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
To: Vladimir Prus <ghost at cs dot msu dot su>
Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 10:34:55 +0200
Subject: Re: Formatting of function pointer value
References: <dalbrd$tn0$1@sea.gmane.org> <dalep8$5ek$1@sea.gmane.org><20050708135830.GC17089@nevyn.them.org> <dat0lm$kuh$4@sea.gmane.org>

Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su> writes:

> I'm sorry, I don't understand this. Is human user supposed to know that '{'
> starts a function? What harm will it make if parenthesis are used in both
> cases?

`{TYPE} ADDR' is a special syntax for expressions in gdb and is actually a
shorthand for `*(TYPE *) ADDR'.

Andreas.

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