dbx thinks pointer is int

[Oleg Kiselev]

In article <1161 at msa3b.UUCP> kevin at msa3b.UUCP (Kevin P. Kleinfelter) writes:
>I am running dbx on a large program.  I have clearly defined "int *kpk;".
>However, when I tell dbx to "p kpk" it displays an integer, and when I
>tell it to "p *kpk" it tells me '"kpk" is not a pointer'.  If I move
>the declaration inside the "main" function, dbx behaves normally.
...
>This is all under AIX PS/2 v1.1.
>Am I confused, or is dbx?

dbx.  It's a bug, I have run into it as well.  File an APAR.

370 version of dbx does not have these problems.

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