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Subject: gdb & BOOL

gdb seems to be interpreting BOOL types as pointers - in both the console and the variable viewer, they're being given as (for instance) 0x1000000.
bool types (note the lowercase) are interpreted normally, and appear as 'true' or 'false'.

What happens is pretty apparent if you look at the definitions of BOOL (defined in <objc/objc.h>) and Boolean (<Corefoundation/CFBase.h>).

Both are typedef'd as {un}signed char, so the debugger has no chance to display anything but contents of an char.

bool is an built in type for C++ and C99, so the debugger knows it can have two states (false, or 0 when assigned to another type, and true, or anything but 0 when assigned to another type).

If you need to use a mix of those representations, the fun starts with pointers and references. It will work if you cast Boolean <--> BOOL (which is an sign cast) , but never ever do that with bool <--> BOOL or bool <--> Boolean (sizeof( BOOL) = sizeof( char ), sizeof ( Boolean ) = sizeof( unsigned char ), sizeof( bool ) = sizeof( int )).

Anyone else experiencing this? Is there anything I can do to fix it? 

Yes, No.

Regards,
	Tom_E
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