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+// Copyright 2013 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
+// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
+// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
+// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
+// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
+// except according to those terms.
+
+// xfail-win32 Broken because of LLVM bug: http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=16249
+
+// Caveats - gdb prints any 8-bit value (meaning rust i8 and u8 values)
+// as its numerical value along with its associated ASCII char, there
+// doesn't seem to be any way around this. Also, gdb doesn't know
+// about UTF-32 character encoding and will print a rust char as only
+// its numerical value.
+
+// compile-flags:-Z extra-debug-info
+// debugger:break zzz
+// debugger:run
+// debugger:finish
+// debugger:print *bool_ref
+// check:$1 = true
+
+// debugger:print *int_ref
+// check:$2 = -1
+
+// debugger:print *char_ref
+// check:$3 = 97
+
+// debugger:print *i8_ref
+// check:$4 = 68 'D'
+
+// debugger:print *i16_ref
+// check:$5 = -16
+
+// debugger:print *i32_ref
+// check:$6 = -32
+
+// debugger:print *i64_ref
+// check:$7 = -64
+
+// debugger:print *uint_ref
+// check:$8 = 1
+
+// debugger:print *u8_ref
+// check:$9 = 100 'd'
+
+// debugger:print *u16_ref
+// check:$10 = 16
+
+// debugger:print *u32_ref
+// check:$11 = 32
+
+// debugger:print *u64_ref
+// check:$12 = 64
+
+// debugger:print *float_ref
+// check:$13 = 1.5
+
+// debugger:print *f32_ref
+// check:$14 = 2.5
+
+// debugger:print *f64_ref
+// check:$15 = 3.5
+
+fn main() {
+    let bool_val: bool = true;
+    let bool_ref : &bool = &bool_val;
+
+    let int_val: int = -1;
+    let int_ref : &int = &int_val;
+
+    let char_val: char = 'a';
+    let char_ref : &char = &char_val;
+
+    let i8_val: i8 = 68;
+    let i8_ref : &i8 = &i8_val;
+
+    let i16_val: i16 = -16;
+    let i16_ref : &i16 = &i16_val;
+
+    let i32_val: i32 = -32;
+    let i32_ref : &i32 = &i32_val;
+
+    let uint_val: i64 = -64;
+    let i64_ref : &i64 = &uint_val;
+
+    let uint_val: uint = 1;
+    let uint_ref : &uint = &uint_val;
+
+    let u8_val: u8 = 100;
+    let u8_ref : &u8 = &u8_val;
+
+    let u16_val: u16 = 16;
+    let u16_ref : &u16 = &u16_val;
+
+    let u32_val: u32 = 32;
+    let u32_ref : &u32 = &u32_val;
+
+    let u64_val: u64 = 64;
+    let u64_ref : &u64 = &u64_val;
+
+    let float_val: float = 1.5;
+    let float_ref : &float = &float_val;
+
+    let f32_val: f32 = 2.5;
+    let f32_ref : &f32 = &f32_val;
+
+    let f64_val: f64 = 3.5;
+    let f64_ref : &f64 = &f64_val;
+    zzz();
+}
+
+fn zzz() {()}
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