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[Bug python/12027] Can't get to value from a global symbol usingPyhton API
- From: "joel.borggren.franck at gmail dot com"<sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: gdb-prs at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:03:01 +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 #7 from Joel BorggrÃn-Franck <joel.borggren.franck at gmail dot com> 2012-02-01 10:03:01 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> > The problem isn't that it is impossible to get the value, the problem is that
> > there is no way of getting the value trough the Pyton API (proper).
>
> 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?
The distinction is that when you use parse_and_eval you aren't programming in
Python, you are programming in gdb-script. If you need to use parse_and_eval
all the time the value of the Pyton API diminishes.
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