From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12034 invoked by alias); 19 Oct 2009 18:10:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 12022 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Oct 2009 18:10:12 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,BOTNET X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.dfsv37.com (HELO mail2.dfsv37.com) (91.103.216.240) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:10:05 +0000 Received: from [93.97.108.198] (helo=[192.168.1.69]) by mail2.dfsv37.com with esmtpsa (SSLv3:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mzwg5-0006s5-4Z for gdb@sourceware.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:09:53 +0100 Subject: Re: Status of -symbol-type MI command? From: Ashley Pittman To: gdb@sourceware.org In-Reply-To: References: <1255970153.20976.29.camel@alpha> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:11:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1255975820.20976.37.camel@alpha> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-10/txt/msg00307.txt.bz2 On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 11:59 -0600, Tom Tromey wrote: > >>>>> "Ashley" == Ashley Pittman writes: > > Ashley> I've recently been trying to tighten integration and have > Ashley> discovered that the -symbol-type command doesn't seem to exist, > Ashley> it's referenced in old copies of the documentation however > Ashley> appears to have been dropped. > > It was documented but never implemented. All we did was drop it from > the docs. Ok, thanks. > Ashley> The corresponding ptype command does work however. Can anybody > Ashley> tell me what command supersedes it and how I should access the > Ashley> information? > > If ptype works for you, I guess that is the way :-) I could make it work but it would be far from ideal. I've been reading the docs a bit more, it seems the -var-create command can provide the functionality I want (and more), it'll take a little more coding on my part but appears a much superior way of doing things. Ashley, Ps, reading through the list I found a reference to this page, perhaps you would be so kind as to add a link for me? The project homepage is linked to in my sig http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/GDB%20Front%20Ends -- Ashley Pittman, Bath, UK. Padb - A parallel job inspection tool for cluster computing http://padb.pittman.org.uk