arrow expression and array of struct

[Ilya Beylin]

In gdb 5.0, the C expression a->f does not behave well when a is an array.
For instance, in the following example it does have a value but not type:

zeus: ~/test> cat >array1.c
struct { int f,g;} a[1] = {{1,2}};
int main() { return a->f; }
zeus: ~/test> gcc -g array1.c
zeus: ~/test> gdb a.out
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(gdb) print a->f
$1 = 1
(gdb) ptype a->f
Type struct {...} [1] is not a structure or union type.

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