On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Tom Tromey <tro...@redhat.com> wrote: >>>>>> "Gaby" == Gabriel Dos Reis <g...@integrable-solutions.net> writes: > > Tom> I asked Keith to resurrect his patch for this. > > Gaby> Since people are concerned about typing rules, would it > Gaby> be an option for GDB to allow people to input pointer > Gaby> literals with the "p" suffix (or "0p" prefix instead of "0x")? > > I think on the whole I'd rather have one extension instead of two.
That is a fair point :-) > > It seems to me that the above would still require extensions in the > overloading code, to deal with conversions from void*; or perhaps some > magic pointer type. > > What I think Keith is going to do is take his patch, change it so that > int->pointer conversions (if the int != 0) are given a different badness > from other conversions (meaning that, in theory, this should only be > chosen as a last resort, and shouldn't interfere with ordinary uses), > and finally add a parameter so that the feature can be disabled. > > I hope this will be acceptable all around. OK, that sounds reasonable. Thanks! -- Gaby
