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List:       gdb
Subject:    Re: problem with creating variable object (gdb6.3)
From:       Robert Dewar <dewar () adacore ! com>
Date:       2007-06-22 11:53:59
Message-ID: 467BB857.8070507 () adacore ! com
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Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 12:16:54PM +0200, Bogdan Slusarczyk wrote:
>> Additionally I noticed that if I use (short *) instead of (bool *) everything 
>> is fine What is wrong with 'bool'??
> 
> Is it a C or C++ program?  GDB doesn't know anything about the bool
> type in C, because it's not part of the C language.

It would seem harmless for gdb to recognize bool rather than giving
an error, given it is such standard usage (gdb is not a C compiler,
it does not have to strenuously implement the standard :-))

Or, if you are not willing to make that junk, special casing the
error message might be helpful.

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