Re: [RFC - doc] Add note about the possibility of symbols getting moved across blocks

[Siva Chandra <sivachandra at google dot com>]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> OK, thanks. ?Then how about the following text?
>
> ?A @code{gdb.Block} is iterable. ?The iterator returns the symbols
> ?(@pxref{Symbols In Python}) local to the block. ?Python programs
> ?should not assume that a specific block object will always contain a
> ?given symbol, since changes in @value{GDBN} features and
> ?infrastructure may cause symbols move across blocks in a symbol
> ?table.

I have modified the patch to use the exact same text as above.

2012-04-28  Siva Chandra Reddy  <sivachandra@google.com>

        * gdb.texinfo (Blocks In Python): Add a note saying that future
        improvements to GDB and its infrastructure can move symbols
        across blocks within a symbol table.

Thanks,
Siva Chandra

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