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-rw-r--r--gdb/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--gdb/printcmd.c6
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 07c9412..9df64f6 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2002-09-09 Fred Fish <fnf@intrinsity.com>
+
+ * printcmd.c (print_scalar_formatted): "len" is the number of
+ target bytes, NOT the number of target bits.
+
2002-09-09 Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com>
From: Emmanuel Thome' <thome@lix.polytechnique.fr>
diff --git a/gdb/printcmd.c b/gdb/printcmd.c
index 2e57050..8542b8a 100644
--- a/gdb/printcmd.c
+++ b/gdb/printcmd.c
@@ -391,10 +391,10 @@ print_scalar_formatted (char *valaddr, struct type *type, int format, int size,
val_long = unpack_long (type, valaddr);
/* If the value is a pointer, and pointers and addresses are not the
- same, then at this point, the value's length is TARGET_ADDR_BIT, not
- TYPE_LENGTH (type). */
+ same, then at this point, the value's length (in target bytes) is
+ TARGET_ADDR_BIT/TARGET_CHAR_BIT, not TYPE_LENGTH (type). */
if (TYPE_CODE (type) == TYPE_CODE_PTR)
- len = TARGET_ADDR_BIT;
+ len = TARGET_ADDR_BIT / TARGET_CHAR_BIT;
/* If we are printing it as unsigned, truncate it in case it is actually
a negative signed value (e.g. "print/u (short)-1" should print 65535