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| author | Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> | 2011-07-27 17:41:18 +0000 |
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| committer | Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> | 2011-07-27 17:41:18 +0000 |
| commit | 1dcd1d370a448bb69b901b79c06a1aa927c58683 (patch) | |
| tree | 64fa331b59c7a1d9d6686c808d5df46b6f5c6261 /gdb/typeprint.c | |
| parent | 49c026948157691b949769c8c3365d18cf74b319 (diff) | |
| download | gdb-1dcd1d370a448bb69b901b79c06a1aa927c58683.tar.gz | |
gdb/
* typeprint.c (_initialize_typeprint): Extend the help of "whatis" and
"ptype" by their typedefs difference.
gdb/testsuite/
* gdb.base/help.exp (help whatis): Update the expected string.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/typeprint.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/typeprint.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/typeprint.c b/gdb/typeprint.c index 03e633241c3..cf4158da9c0 100644 --- a/gdb/typeprint.c +++ b/gdb/typeprint.c @@ -316,8 +316,10 @@ _initialize_typeprint (void) Print definition of type TYPE.\n\ Argument may be a type name defined by typedef, or \"struct STRUCT-TAG\"\n\ or \"class CLASS-NAME\" or \"union UNION-TAG\" or \"enum ENUM-TAG\".\n\ -The selected stack frame's lexical context is used to look up the name.")); +The selected stack frame's lexical context is used to look up the name.\n\ +Contrary to \"whatis\", \"ptype\" always unrolls any typedefs.")); add_com ("whatis", class_vars, whatis_command, - _("Print data type of expression EXP.")); + _("Print data type of expression EXP.\n\ +Only one level of typedefs is unrolled. See also \"ptype\".")); } |