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authorSiva Chandra Reddy <sivachandra@sourceware.org>2012-05-13 11:33:44 +0000
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2012-05-13 Siva Chandra Reddy <sivachandra@google.com>
Add a new function gdb.find_pc_line to the Python API. * NEWS (Python Scripting): Add entry about the new function. * python/python.c (gdbpy_find_pc_line): New function which implements gdb.find_pc_line. (GdbMethods): Add entry for the new function. doc/ * gdb.texinfo (Basic Python): Add description about the function gdb.find_pc_line testsuite/ * gdb.python/python.c: Add a new breakpoint comment. * gdb.python/python.exp: Add tests to test gdb.find_pc_line.
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+2012-05-13 Siva Chandra Reddy <sivachandra@google.com>
+
+ * gdb.texinfo (Basic Python): Add description about the function
+ gdb.find_pc_line
+
2012-05-12 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
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@@ -22508,6 +22508,15 @@ compute values, for example, it is the only way to get the value of a
convenience variable (@pxref{Convenience Vars}) as a @code{gdb.Value}.
@end defun
+@findex gdb.find_pc_line
+@defun gdb.find_pc_line (pc)
+Return the @code{gdb.Symtab_and_line} object corresponding to the
+@var{pc} value. @xref{Symbol Tables In Python}. If an invalid
+value of @var{pc} is passed as an argument, then the @code{symtab} and
+@code{line} attributes of the returned @code{gdb.Symtab_and_line} object
+will be @code{None} and 0 respectively.
+@end defun
+
@findex gdb.post_event
@defun gdb.post_event (event)
Put @var{event}, a callable object taking no arguments, into