From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [doc patch] whatis vs. ptype - the difference
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:30:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3oc0zfead.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110712183130.GA15349@host1.jankratochvil.net> (Jan Kratochvil's message of "Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:31:30 +0200")
>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> writes:
Jan> another possibility is to fix it - that `ptype var' strips the
Jan> typedefs looks wrong. But GDB people are used how it works.
I think it is handy to have both options available. And, compatibility
usually wins. So I'd rather not change it.
However, we could also give ptype and whatis options, to let the user
choose another way.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-12 20:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-12 19:20 Jan Kratochvil
2011-07-12 20:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-12 20:38 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-07-12 20:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-12 20:30 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2011-07-15 14:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-15 18:07 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-07-19 13:52 ` Pedro Alves
2011-07-26 2:58 ` ping: " Jan Kratochvil
2011-07-26 8:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-26 18:11 ` Jan Kratochvil
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