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| author | Siva Chandra Reddy <sivachandra@sourceware.org> | 2012-05-02 17:27:50 +0000 |
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| committer | Siva Chandra Reddy <sivachandra@sourceware.org> | 2012-05-02 17:27:50 +0000 |
| commit | 56af09aac9731a064a0000925b431b65229766ed (patch) | |
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2012-05-02 Siva Chandra Reddy <sivachandra@google.com>
* doc/gdb.texinfo (Blocks In Python): Add a note saying that
future improvements to GDB and its infrastructure can move
symbols across blocks within a symbol table.
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diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog index 87230cc..385e919 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2012-05-02 Siva Chandra Reddy <sivachandra@google.com> + + * gdb.texinfo (Blocks In Python): Add a note saying that future + improvements to GDB and its infrastructure can move symbols + across blocks within a symbol table. + 2012-04-29 Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com> * gdb.texinfo (Architectures): Remove menu entry `A29K'. diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo index c72f6a7..e0b8529 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo @@ -24644,7 +24644,11 @@ detailed technical information on @value{GDBN}'s book-keeping of the stack. A @code{gdb.Block} is iterable. The iterator returns the symbols -(@pxref{Symbols In Python}) local to the block. +(@pxref{Symbols In Python}) local to the block. Python programs +should not assume that a specific block object will always contain a +given symbol, since changes in @value{GDBN} features and +infrastructure may cause symbols move across blocks in a symbol +table. The following block-related functions are available in the @code{gdb} module: |