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| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/doc/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/doc/python.texi | 5 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog index 1f41498..87e20d3 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2019-03-26 Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com> + + * python.texi (Pretty Printing API): Document use of None for the + display_hint. + 2019-03-22 Alan Hayward <alan.hayward@arm.com> Jiong Wang <jiong.wang@arm.com> diff --git a/gdb/doc/python.texi b/gdb/doc/python.texi index 6fadaff..56c925d 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/python.texi +++ b/gdb/doc/python.texi @@ -1294,7 +1294,7 @@ consumer as a @samp{displayhint} attribute of the variable being printed. This method is optional. If it does exist, this method must return a -string. +string or the special value @code{None}. Some display hints are predefined by @value{GDBN}: @@ -1317,6 +1317,9 @@ string-printing function to format the string. For the CLI this means adding quotation marks, possibly escaping some characters, respecting @code{set print elements}, and the like. @end table + +The special value @code{None} causes @value{GDBN} to apply the default +display rules. @end defun @defun pretty_printer.to_string (self) |