From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4858 invoked by alias); 11 Feb 2006 20:13:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 4849 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Feb 2006 20:13:35 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 20:13:34 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1F817W-00076W-Px; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 15:13:26 -0500 Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 20:13:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Fred Fish , Jim Blandy , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix ptype problem printing typedefs defined differently in different compilation units Message-ID: <20060211201326.GA27289@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Eli Zaretskii , Fred Fish , Jim Blandy , gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <200601031517.50309.fnf@specifix.com> <200601231435.47790.fnf@specifix.com> <8f2776cb0601231245y6bc1e8a4yc80070284575e654@mail.gmail.com> <200602101935.06700.fnf@specifix.com> <20060211183500.GA25132@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-02/txt/msg00266.txt.bz2 On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 09:08:10PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 13:35:00 -0500 > > From: Daniel Jacobowitz > > Cc: Jim Blandy , gdb-patches@sourceware.org > > > > The documentation for whatis and ptype leaves me way unenlightened > > about what the difference between them is supposed to be; perhaps we > > should eliminate the difference. > > Is the following excerpt from the manual incorrect? If it's correct, > it seems to answer your question: Ah - I missed that. There's nothing that explains this _other_ difference between them, which suggests that we should indeed remove it (remove the difference, I mean). -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery