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Frames as scopes
- From: "Jim Blandy" <jimb at red-bean dot com>
- To: archer at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:57:00 -0800
- Subject: Frames as scopes
I've been having a great time playing with the Python interface!
On IRC, Tom invited me to post suggestions.
Is there a way to look up a variable in the scope specified by a frame? Saying
gdb.lookup_symbol('argc',gdb.block_for_pc(gdb.current_frame().pc()),gdb.SYMBOL_VAR_DOMAIN)
seems circuitous; perhaps lookup_symbol could default the domain to
SYMBOL_VAR_DOMAIN, and accept a frame to indicate scope, defaulting to
the current frame. Then one could simply say:
gdb.lookup_symbol('argc')
and get what one expects.