RE: "set foo"

["Paul Koning" <Paul_Koning@Dell.com>]

> > I looked at emacs/src/.gdbinit and it seems to me that the types and
> > variables in question are global (in the sense of, not local to a
> > function).  So, they should be found without this trick.
> 
> So you are saying that global types and variables are always loaded by
> GDB automatically, not lazily?

I don't think it means that.  The name should always be recognized; the
definition for that name might be loaded lazily.  That's how variable
names are handled, right?  Lazy loading is an optimization;  it should
be transparent to the user (apart from its performance benefits).

	paul