[PATCH v2] Add an Objfile.lookup_global_symbol function

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 20:38:24 -0500
> From: "Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> Cc: Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>
> 
> Per the discussion in the thread about my gdb.lookup_global_symbol
> patch, I've changed this patch to only look in GLOBAL_SCOPE.
> 
> This is essentially the inverse of Symbol.objfile. This allows
> handling different symbols with the same name (but from different
> objfiles) and can also be faster if the objfile is known.
> 
> gdb/ChangeLog:
> 
> 2019-07-25  Christian Biesinger  <cbiesinger@google.com>
> 
> 	* NEWS: Mention new function Objfile.lookup_global_symbol.
> 	* python/py-objfile.c (objfpy_lookup_global_symbol): New function
> 	  Objfile.lookup_global_symbol.
> 
> gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
> 
> 2019-07-25  Christian Biesinger  <cbiesinger@google.com>
> 
> 	* python.texi (Objfiles In Python): Document new function
> 	  Objfile.lookup_global_symbol.
> 
> gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
> 
> 2019-07-25  Christian Biesinger  <cbiesinger@google.com>
> 
> 	* gdb.python/py-objfile.c: Add global and static vars.
> 	* gdb.python/py-objfile.exp: Test new function Objfile.
> 	  lookup_global_symbol.

Thanks, the documentation parts are OK.