Re: Question Regarding Int Cast Error in GDB Python

Hi,

On 8/25/25 14:29, Vacha Bhavsar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Apologies, it seems I pasted the wrong snippet in the original email.
> The code in my reply just prior to this is the correct code. The snippet 
> that
> should have been included in the first email, which causes the error, is
> the one below:
> 
> v = gdb.parse_and_eval(reg)
> report(str(v.type) == "uint128_t", "size of %s" % (reg))

Right, so gdb doesn't like casting integers to/from 8+ bytes. That's a 
limitation currently. But why are you considering this particular cast? 
To optimize the checks instead of using the byte vectors?