Re: Question about not deferenceable pointers

[Andrew Gaylard]

Uli Tuerk wrote:
> Hi Andrew!
>
>
> > Is your pointer a void* ?
> >
> > If so, the underlying debugger has no idea what structure to show
> > when dereferencing it.
>
>
> Yes, it is. I thought, it isn't but the definition of the field was well 
> hidden :-( Thanks for the hint!
> Is there any way to typecast the pointer when using gdb? I know the data 
> type it points to. I tried to give the typecast in the display command but without 
> success (e.g. "(RegNode *) n" when n is the pointer).

Yes, you definitely can:

print (RegNode *)n
graph display ((RegNode *)n)

works for me.