Re: RFC: Print the type of a C value in one more case

[Paul Schlie <schlie at comcast dot net>]

>> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>> This is something that constantly bugs me when debugging GCC.  GCC has
>> typedefs for "tree" and "rtx" which are both pointers to structs.  When
>> you print either, you just get "$1 = 0xbf000100" without any indication
>> of the type of the variable; but normally GDB prints types for pointers.
>> This comes from a missing check_typedef in c_value_print.
>> 
>> There were a couple of ways to fix it; I chose to print the typedef rather
>> than what the typedef pointed to.  The only difference in the testsuite is
>> in one objc test, which perfectly illustrates the desired change:
>> 
>> -$1 = 0x0
>> +$1 = (id) 0x0
>> ...

- was there ever a conclusion on this item, it certainly seems helpful?