Re: Question about not deferenceable pointers

[Andrew Gaylard]

Uli Tuerk wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I get the following message when I try to double click on a pointer in a 
> struct. The pointer points to another valid struct:
>
> Attempt to dereference a generic pointer.
> Disabling display 23 to avoid infinite recursion.
>
> The display for this struct does not opens, it reads just "(Disabled)".
>
> This happens with gcc 3.3.1, compiler flags "-ansi -g", no optimization is 
> applied.
>
> I haven't found anything concerning "infinite recursion" in the 
> documentation.
>
> Any hints are welcome!
>
> Thanks!
> Uli

Uli,

Is your pointer a void* ?

If so, the underlying debugger has no idea what structure to show
when dereferencing it.

What does your code look like?

Andrew.