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| author | Siva Chandra <sivachandra@chromium.org> | 2014-03-30 16:24:50 -0700 |
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| committer | Siva Chandra <sivachandra@chromium.org> | 2014-06-03 10:07:45 -0700 |
| commit | 0c6e92a52c60347a3e5689150d25b1cb87eeb258 (patch) | |
| tree | 1e28d3e0c76de1534e50f117c51b755df753a798 /gdb/NEWS | |
| parent | 883964a75e8c6531f167391354f1a4d83d203988 (diff) | |
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Documentation of the xmethod support in GDB Python API.
* NEWS (Python Scripting): Add entry about the new xmethods
feature.
doc/
* python.texi (Xmethods In Python, XMethod API)
(Writing an Xmethod): New nodes.
(Python API): New menu entries "Xmethods In Python",
"Xmethod API", "Writing an Xmethod".
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@@ -153,6 +153,11 @@ qXfer:btrace:read's annex ** Valid Python operations on gdb.Value objects representing structs/classes invoke the corresponding overloaded operators if available. + ** New `Xmethods' feature in the Python API. Xmethods are + additional methods or replacements for existing methods of a C++ + class. This feature is useful for those cases where a method + defined in C++ source code could be inlined or optimized out by + the compiler, making it unavailable to GDB. * New targets PowerPC64 GNU/Linux little-endian powerpc64le-*-linux* |