* valops.c (value_cast): If casting a scalar to a pointer, do not

 	issue a message about truncation unless it exceeds the length of
 	an address, not the length of a pointer.  This is because what the
 	user gives us is an address, not a pointer, and we will ultimately
 	convert it (via ADDRESS_TO_POINTER) to a pointer, not truncate it
 	to a pointer.  This allows things like "print *(int *)0x01000234"
 	to work without generating a misleading message on a target having
 	two byte pointers and four byte addresses.

2 files changed, 26 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 98d226f..a91d3a0 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+Tue Feb  6 11:58:57 2001  David Taylor  <taylor@redhat.com>
+
+	* valops.c (value_cast): If casting a scalar to a pointer, do not
+ 	issue a message about truncation unless it exceeds the length of
+ 	an address, not the length of a pointer.  This is because what the
+ 	user gives us is an address, not a pointer, and we will ultimately
+ 	convert it (via ADDRESS_TO_POINTER) to a pointer, not truncate it
+ 	to a pointer.  This allows things like "print *(int *)0x01000234"
+ 	to work without generating a misleading message on a target having
+ 	two byte pointers and four byte addresses.
+
 2001-02-05  Christopher Faylor  <cgf@cygnus.com>
 
 	* win32-nat.c: Change PTR to void * throughout.
diff --git a/gdb/valops.c b/gdb/valops.c
index b546808..9a90e3d 100644
--- a/gdb/valops.c
+++ b/gdb/valops.c
@@ -287,12 +287,23 @@ value_cast (struct type *type, register value_ptr arg2)
 				      code2 == TYPE_CODE_ENUM ||
 				      code2 == TYPE_CODE_RANGE))
     {
-      int ptr_bit = HOST_CHAR_BIT * TYPE_LENGTH (type);
+      /* TYPE_LENGTH (type) is the length of a pointer, but we really
+	 want the length of an address! -- we are really dealing with
+	 addresses (i.e., gdb representations) not pointers (i.e.,
+	 target representations) here.
+
+	 This allows things like "print *(int *)0x01000234" to work
+	 without printing a misleading message -- which would
+	 otherwise occur when dealing with a target having two byte
+	 pointers and four byte addresses.  */
+
+      int addr_bit = TARGET_ADDR_BIT;
+
       LONGEST longest = value_as_long (arg2);
-      if (ptr_bit < sizeof (LONGEST) * HOST_CHAR_BIT)
+      if (addr_bit < sizeof (LONGEST) * HOST_CHAR_BIT)
 	{
-	  if (longest >= ((LONGEST) 1 << ptr_bit)
-	      || longest <= -((LONGEST) 1 << ptr_bit))
+	  if (longest >= ((LONGEST) 1 << addr_bit)
+	      || longest <= -((LONGEST) 1 << addr_bit))
 	    warning ("value truncated");
 	}
       return value_from_longest (type, longest);