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authorPedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>2016-01-13 10:56:06 +0000
committerPedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>2016-01-13 10:58:03 +0000
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Add Python InferiorThread.inferior attribute
So a script can easily get at a thread's inferior and its number. gdb/ChangeLog: 2016-01-13 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> * NEWS: Mention InferiorThread.inferior. * python/py-infthread.c (thpy_get_inferior): New. (thread_object_getset): Register "inferior". gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog: 2016-01-13 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> * gdb.python/py-infthread.exp: Test InferiorThread.inferior. gdb/doc/ChangeLog: 2016-01-13 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> * python.texi (Threads In Python): Document InferiorThread.inferior.
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@@ -175,6 +175,11 @@ show remote catch-syscall-packet
format. It outputs data in hexadecimal format with zero-padding on the
left.
+* Python Scripting
+
+ ** gdb.InferiorThread objects have a new attribute "inferior", which
+ is the Inferior object the thread belongs to.
+
*** Changes in GDB 7.10
* Support for process record-replay and reverse debugging on aarch64*-linux*