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Re: Program terminated with SIGSEGV when trying to print an arrayelement


On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 02:52:20PM +0800, Wu Zhou wrote:
> > Sure.  But now I am having difficulty in one problem: given an struct value 
> > with the type being TYPE_CODE_PTR, how to get the value of the array (or 
> > string or whatever) it refer to?  We need to know this to go on with the 
> > following evaluation.  I had thought that function "value_from_pointer" 
> > will do this, but it turn out to be false.  Anyone could help on this? 
> 
> Usually, value_ind.  Do you have a pointer to a TYPE_CODE_ARRAY, or has
> the array decayed into a pointer (like in C)?

Thank you, Daniel! "value_ind" worked.  I will clean up a patch for this 
later and send to gdb-patches for review.  

BTW, to answer your question, what I have is a pointer to a value with the
type being TYPE_CODE_ARRAY.  It is not like that in C.

Cheers
- Wu Zhou 


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