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Re: [PATCH] Fix ptype problem printing typedefs defined differently in different compilation units
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: Fred Fish <fnf at specifix dot com>, Jim Blandy <jimb at red-bean dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 15:13:26 -0500
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix ptype problem printing typedefs defined differently in different compilation units
- References: <200601031517.50309.fnf@specifix.com> <200601231435.47790.fnf@specifix.com> <8f2776cb0601231245y6bc1e8a4yc80070284575e654@mail.gmail.com> <200602101935.06700.fnf@specifix.com> <20060211183500.GA25132@nevyn.them.org> <u4q35yaqt.fsf@gnu.org>
On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 09:08:10PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 13:35:00 -0500
> > From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> > Cc: Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> >
> > The documentation for whatis and ptype leaves me way unenlightened
> > about what the difference between them is supposed to be; perhaps we
> > should eliminate the difference.
>
> Is the following excerpt from the manual incorrect? If it's correct,
> it seems to answer your question:
Ah - I missed that. There's nothing that explains this _other_
difference between them, which suggests that we should indeed remove
it (remove the difference, I mean).
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery