Bug 704010

Summary:	make gdb's help a bit clearer re: ptype & whatis
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Paul Victor Novarese <pvn>
Component:	gdb	Assignee:	Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	qe-baseos-tools-bugs
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.3	CC:	jwest, mhideo, pmuller, syeghiay, wnix
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Documentation
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Fixed In Version:	gdb-7.2-49.el6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Paul Victor Novarese 2011-05-11 20:15:08 UTC

Description of problem:

ptype and whatis are very closely related. However, the distinction is not really clearly defined in the gdb help. Tromey asked me to file a bug about it since I was confused.

Probably just clarifying that ptype strips typedefs and pointing the user at whatis and vice versa should be enough.

Comment 5 Jan Kratochvil 2011-07-12 18:32:17 UTC

[doc patch] whatis vs. ptype - the difference
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-07/msg00306.html

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-06 17:33:53 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1699.html