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Re: Linux/ppc failure


On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 12:33:15AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> I don't think that's true at all!  In the case of symbol overrides, we
> have no guarantee that the items being overridden all have the same
> type, right?

Yes we do.  Or, rather, enough of one as to make no difference.
The function _here_ is going to treat the data as if its that
type, no matter what it really is.  So gdb can just as well print
the variable as the local function is going to view it.

Anyway, it happens with dynbss even for well-behaved programs.


r~


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