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Bug 312516

Summary:	[expressions] Support better casting of expressions
Product:	[Tools] CDT	Reporter:	Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam>
Component:	cdt-debug-dsf-gdb	Assignee:	Project Inbox <cdt-debug-dsf-gdb-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Jonah Graham <jonah>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	aegges, pawel.1.piech
Version:	7.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Marc Khouzam

2010-05-11 20:16:17 EDT

Currently, DSF-GDB allows to cast an expression by simply doing
(castType)(expression)
but we can do better by doing 
*(catType*)&(expression)
However this does not work for complex expressions (e.g., "x + 1")

The details of this can be found in
bug 306555 comment #10
bug 306555 comment #13
bug 306555 comment #14
bug 306555 comment #15
bug 306555 comment #20 and it's patch