As Joel pointed out in...
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-07/msg00391.html
...it would be nice to add a test for that.
Tested on Linux x86_64 (Ubuntu 14.10).
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
2014-07-15 Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>
* gdb.base/debug-expr.exp: Test string evaluation with
"debug expression" on.
Two modifications:
1. The addition of 2013 to the copyright year range for every file;
2. The use of a single year range, instead of potentially multiple
year ranges, as approved by the FSF.
UNOP_MEMVAL_TYPE.
* expprint.c (print_subexp_standard, case OP_TYPE): New.
(print_subexp_standard, case UNOP_CAST_TYPE): Don't increment pos.
(print_subexp_standard, case UNOP_DYNAMIC_CAST): Ditto.
(print_subexp_standard, case UNOP_REINTERPRET_CAST): Ditto.
(print_subexp_standard, case UNOP_MEMVAL_TYPE): Ditto.
(dump_subexp_body_standard, case UNOP_DYNAMIC_CAST): Don't increment
elt.
(dump_subexp_body_standard, case UNOP_REINTERPRET_CAST): Ditto.
(dump_subexp_body_standard, case UNOP_CAST_TYPE): Ditto.
(dump_subexp_body_standard, case UNOP_MEMVAL_TYPE): Ditto.
(dump_prefix_expression): Handle OP_TYPE.
testsuite/
* gdb.base/debug-expr.c: New file.
* gdb.base/debug-expr.exp: New file.
* gdb.base/exprs.exp: Test {type} casts.
* gdb.cp/debug-expr.exp: New file.