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Re: MI equivalent for "whatis"
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 07:21:47PM +0300, Vladimir Prus wrote:
>>
>> Is there any MI command that does the same as "whatis".
>
> What you see in the manual is what you get :-)
>
>> The "-symbol-type" is not implemented and to use `-var-info-type' I need
>> to use "variable-objects", which is too much of refactoring.
>
> I assume you mean -symbol-list-types.
No, exactly "-symbol-type" which is documented as equivalent to "ptype".
> Someone could implement that.
> But varobj really is the way to go and it wouldn't be hard to do a
> special-case of that:
>
> -var-create OBJ * <symbolname>
> -var-info-type OBJ
> -var-delete OBJ
Thanks, that worked.
- Volodya