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[Bug python/12027] Can't get to value from a global symbol usingPyhton API
- From: "tromey at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: gdb-prs at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:37:12 +0000
- Subject: [Bug python/12027] Can't get to value from a global symbol usingPyhton API
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- References: <bug-12027-4717@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12027
--- Comment #8 from Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com> 2012-02-01 15:37:12 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> I'm not sure to get the distinction, `gdb.parse_and_eval` is part of the Python
> API, and the value returned and be read, modified, etc. from Python scripts;
> could you point something we can't currently do?
Yes. Suppose you have variable shadowing inside a function.
Right now you can iterate over the blocks and get two different symbols,
representing the two variables with the same name.
However, parse_and_eval will only let you fetch the value of the
innermost one.
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