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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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Subject: Strangeness in set command
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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?