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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Strangeness in set command
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:54:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <umyo8rzsk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jey77sp7xr.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (message from Andreas Schwab on 	Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:45:04 +0200)

> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
> Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
> Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:45:04 +0200
> 
> >   (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.

Thanks.

Does anyone object to improving the error message to mention "set
variable"?


  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-05 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-05 16:49 Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-05 16:56 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-04-05 18:54   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-04-07  8:47     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-04-07 18:32       ` Andrew STUBBS
2008-04-07 19:28       ` Michael Snyder
2008-04-07 19:37         ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-08 20:38           ` Andrew STUBBS
2008-04-08 20:45             ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-09  0:35               ` Doug Evans
2008-04-09  0:44             ` Michael Snyder
2008-04-09 17:24         ` Tom Tromey
2008-04-09 17:36           ` Michael Snyder

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