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Hello, Attached is a patch which implements a new command 'explore' using the GDB Python API. The idea behind this 'explore' command is as follows: Often, when exploring a new code base which has complicated data structures, we would like to explore the data structure values top-down. For example, if a struct is part of a struct/union is part of another struct/union, then we typically explore the top-level struct/union in the first pass. In subsequent passes, we might want to go deeper by exploring the structs/unions embedded in the top level struct. We might infact want to explore all the way up to the leaf values. The ‘explore’ command enables a user to do such a top-down exploration of data structures interactively. I will add the documentation to gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo once the basics of this patch are approved. 2011-12-19 Siva Chandra <sivachandra@google.com> New command 'explore' which helps explore values in scope. * data-directory/Makefile.in: Add gdb/command/explore.py * python/lib/gdb/command/explore.py: Implemention of the 'explore' command using the GDB Python API. * testsuite/gdb.python/Makefile.in: Add py-explore to EXECUTABLES * testsuite/gdb.python/py-explore.c: C program used for testing the new 'explore' command. * testsuite/gdb-python/py-explore.exp: Tests for the new 'explore' command. Thanks, Siva Chandra
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