gdb cannot find symbol for parent class?

I am having this strange issue. gdb clearly knows about the parent class 
but it shows no fields from the parent and claims it doesn't know about it:

(gdb) p *xxMgmtStore::sObject
$3 = (xxMgmtStore) {
   <yyMgmtStore> = {<No data fields>},
   members of xxMgmtStore:
   static sObject = 0x7f89d2290c48,

(gdb) p *(yyMgmtStore*)xxMgmtStore::sObject
No symbol "yyMgmtStore" in current context.

If I try to complete for members of the yyMgmtStore class, I can see gdb 
clearly knows about them. Any suggestions on what may be wrong? This was 
tested with gdb 7.12.1

Francisco