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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: "set foo"
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> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Cc: brobecker@adacore.com, gdb@sourceware.org
> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:45:31 -0600
> 
> I can only say what happens for DWARF debuginfo, I don't know anything
> about the other formats.  (I gather stabs is similar, but I don't know
> details.)

This is on Windows (with MinGW GCC), but the debug info is DWARF2.

> For DWARF, GDB does two passes over the debuginfo.  The first time it
> reads "partial symbols".  There are some maint commands ("apropos partial")
> to dump this info, that might be helpful to you.

"maint info psymbols" indeed does not show "struct Lisp_Symbol", which
was the reason I added "set Fmake_symbol" to .gdbinit.