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diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo index c8bb006..d558ee7 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo @@ -21541,6 +21541,19 @@ Ordinarily, this function will return an instance of @code{gdb.Type}. If the named type cannot be found, it will throw an exception. @end defun +If the type is a structure or class type, or an enum type, the fields +of that type can be accessed using the Python @dfn{dictionary syntax}. +For example, if @code{some_type} is a @code{gdb.Type} instance holding +a structure type, you can access its @code{foo} field with: + +@smallexample +bar = some_type['foo'] +@end smallexample + +@code{bar} will be a @code{gdb.Field} object; see below under the +description of the @code{Type.fields} method for a description of the +@code{gdb.Field} class. + An instance of @code{Type} has the following attributes: @table @code @@ -21574,7 +21587,7 @@ field per parameter. The base types of C@t{++} classes are also represented as fields. If the type has no fields, or does not fit into one of these categories, an empty sequence will be returned. -Each field is an object, with some pre-defined attributes: +Each field is a @code{gdb.Field} object, with some pre-defined attributes: @table @code @item bitpos This attribute is not available for @code{static} fields (as in |