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-rw-r--r--gdb/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--gdb/valops.c13
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 81098a8..f439aed 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2001-07-10 Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
+
+ * valops.c (value_cast): When casting a pointer to an integer,
+ don't convert it to an address.
+
2001-07-10 Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
* remote-utils.h (struct serial): Declare as opaque. Remove
diff --git a/gdb/valops.c b/gdb/valops.c
index 7cc025d..dc987c4 100644
--- a/gdb/valops.c
+++ b/gdb/valops.c
@@ -281,7 +281,18 @@ value_cast (struct type *type, register value_ptr arg2)
break; /* fall out and go to normal handling */
}
}
- longest = value_as_long (arg2);
+
+ /* When we cast pointers to integers, we mustn't use
+ POINTER_TO_ADDRESS to find the address the pointer
+ represents, as value_as_long would. GDB should evaluate
+ expressions just as the compiler would --- and the compiler
+ sees a cast as a simple reinterpretation of the pointer's
+ bits. */
+ if (code2 == TYPE_CODE_PTR)
+ longest = extract_unsigned_integer (VALUE_CONTENTS (arg2),
+ TYPE_LENGTH (type2));
+ else
+ longest = value_as_long (arg2);
return value_from_longest (type, convert_to_boolean ?
(LONGEST) (longest ? 1 : 0) : longest);
}