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Re: "too few arguments in function call"
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: André Pönitz <apoenitz at trolltech dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:09:33 +0200
- Subject: Re: "too few arguments in function call"
- References: <200808050953.44880.apoenitz@trolltech.com>
André Pönitz <apoenitz@trolltech.com> writes:
> However, if I do something like gdb ./myapp-with-all-plugins I get
>
> (gdb) p "xxx"
> too few arguments in function call
When gdb processes a string in an expression it allocates space in the
inferior by calling malloc and copying the string contents into this
space. Apparently gdb gets confused when it looks up the address of the
malloc function.
> When this message is issued in infcall.c, nargs is always 1, and
> TYPE_NFIELDS (ftype) is 2, independently of the arity of the called
> function, so it really seems to involve the 'string literal conversion'
> (or parsing, or whatever gdb does at that point).
What does `info function malloc' show?
Andreas.
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