Re: "set foo"

[Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>]

>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

Eli> The specific use-case is that GDB does not recognize a certain struct;
Eli> for example, "ptype struct foo_t" says "No struct type named foo_t".
Eli> But if I type "set foo", where `foo' is a function whose code uses
Eli> that struct, GDB magically recognizes the struct afterwards.

FWIW, this sounds like a gdb bug to me.

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.

Tom