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-rw-r--r--gdb/rust-parse.c10
-rw-r--r--gdb/testsuite/gdb.rust/simple.exp3
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/rust-parse.c b/gdb/rust-parse.c
index 648e48dda40..427169611d3 100644
--- a/gdb/rust-parse.c
+++ b/gdb/rust-parse.c
@@ -1682,6 +1682,16 @@ rust_parser::parse_slice_type ()
{
assume ('&');
+ /* Handle &str specially. This is an important type in Rust. While
+ the compiler does emit the "&str" type in the DWARF, just "str"
+ itself isn't always available -- but it's handy if this works
+ seamlessly. */
+ if (current_token == IDENT && get_string () == "str")
+ {
+ lex ();
+ return rust_slice_type ("&str", get_type ("u8"), get_type ("usize"));
+ }
+
bool is_slice = current_token == '[';
if (is_slice)
lex ();
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.rust/simple.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.rust/simple.exp
index 08ebed3f103..a615b92ec47 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.rust/simple.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.rust/simple.exp
@@ -68,6 +68,9 @@ gdb_test "print simple::Unit{23}" "'}', '\.\.', or identifier expected"
gdb_test "print f" " = \"hi bob\""
gdb_test "print fslice" " = \"bob\""
gdb_test "print &f\[3..\]" " = \"bob\""
+gdb_test "whatis f" "type = &str"
+gdb_test "print *(&f as *mut &str)" " = \"hi bob\"" \
+ "print via cast to &str"
gdb_test "print g" " = \\(\\*mut \\\[u8; 6\\\]\\) $hex b\"hi bob\""
gdb_test "ptype g" " = \\*mut \\\[u8; 6\\\]"