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authorDoug Evans <dje@google.com>2010-04-15 19:54:13 +0000
committerDoug Evans <dje@google.com>2010-04-15 19:54:13 +0000
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* NEWS: Add entry for python program space support.
* Makefile.in (SUBDIR_PYTHON_OBS): Add py-progspace.o. (SUBDIR_PYTHON_SRCS): Add py-progspace.c. (py-progspace.o): New rule. * python/py-prettyprint.c (find_pretty_printer_from_objfiles): New function. (find_pretty_printer_from_progspace): New function. (find_pretty_printer_from_gdb): New function. (find_pretty_printer): Rewrite. * python/py-progspace.c: New file. * python/python-internal.h (program_space): Add forward decl. (pspace_to_pspace_object, pspy_get_printers): Declare. (gdbpy_initialize_pspace): Declare. * python/python.c: #include "progspace.h". (gdbpy_get_current_progspace, gdbpy_progspaces): New functions. (_initialize_python): Call gdbpy_initialize_pspace. (GdbMethods): Add current_progspace, progspaces. doc/ * gdb.texinfo (Python API): Add progspaces section. (Selecting Pretty-Printers): Progspace pretty-printers are searched too. (Progspaces In Python): New section. testsuite/ * gdb.python/py-progspace.c: New file. * gdb.python/py-progspace.exp: New file.
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* Python scripting
** The GDB Python API now has access to breakpoints, symbols, symbol
- tables, and frame's code blocks.
+ tables, program spaces, and frame's code blocks.
-** New methods gdb.target_charset and gdb.target_wide_charset.
+** New functions gdb.target_charset, gdb.target_wide_charset,
+ gdb.progspaces, and gdb.current_progspace.
+
+** Pretty-printers are now also looked up in the current program space.
* Tracepoint actions were unified with breakpoint commands. In particular,
there are no longer differences in "info break" output for breakpoints and