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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: Strangeness in set command
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Assuming that `s' is a variable of type `struct stat', this command
> fails:
>
>   (gdb) set s.st_mode=0x1ff
>   Ambiguous set command "s.st_mode=0x1ff"
>
> But this succeeds:
>
>   (gdb) set (&s)->st_mode=0x1ff
>
> How come we are smart enough to support the latter, but not the
> former?

Because there are several set commands beginning with s.  Use set
variable to avoid the ambiguity.

Andreas.

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