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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: "set foo"
References: <8339yk1skw.fsf@gnu.org> <20100424212118.GW13204@adacore.com> 	<83y6gbzm4e.fsf@gnu.org> <20100425144347.GA2744@adacore.com> 	<83sk6jzhzv.fsf@gnu.org>
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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:24:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <83sk6jzhzv.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 25 Apr 	2010 18:09:24 +0300")
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>>>>> "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