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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: "Pierre Muller" <pierre.muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr>
Cc: <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] display names of explicit typedefs for 'info types'
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:56:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3y6e48k0j.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <37197.5782713436$1277308354@news.gmane.org> (Pierre Muller's	message of "Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:52:35 +0200")

>>>>> "Pierre" == Pierre Muller <pierre.muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr> writes:

Pierre>   I was always puzzled by the fact that info types
Pierre> did sometime not list types that I knew existed.
Pierre>   The problem is that for types defined in C using `typedef '
Pierre> only the definition part was displayed, but not the name of 
Pierre> the type itself.

Thanks for finding this.

Pierre> (gdb) ptype my
Pierre> type = int
Pierre> Here again, the original typedef name is completely lost ...

I think this is expected.  You can see the typedef if you use 'whatis'
instead:

(gdb) whatis my
type = myint

Pierre> 2010-06-22  Pierre Muller  <muller@ics.u-strasbg.fr>
Pierre>         * c-typeprint.c (c_print_typedef): Append new type name for
Pierre> typedefs.

This is ok.  Thanks.

Tom


       reply	other threads:[~2010-06-24 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <37197.5782713436$1277308354@news.gmane.org>
2010-06-24 16:56 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2010-06-25  7:36   ` Pierre Muller
2010-06-23 15:52 Pierre Muller
2010-06-23 16:58 ` Michael Snyder

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