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* RFA: document a python function
@ 2010-08-10 18:05 Tom Tromey
  2010-08-10 19:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Tom Tromey @ 2010-08-10 18:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gdb-patches

A user noticed that gdb.texinfo does not document the Python function
gdb.default_visualizer.

This patch adds documentation for it.

Please review.

Tom

2010-08-10  Tom Tromey  <tromey@redhat.com>

	* gdb.texinfo (Pretty Printing API): Document
	gdb.default_visualizer.

Index: doc/gdb.texinfo
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo,v
retrieving revision 1.748
diff -u -r1.748 gdb.texinfo
--- doc/gdb.texinfo	7 Aug 2010 15:00:38 -0000	1.748
+++ doc/gdb.texinfo	10 Aug 2010 18:03:59 -0000
@@ -21156,6 +21156,16 @@
 If the result is not one of these types, an exception is raised.
 @end defop
 
+@value{GDBN} provides a function which can be used to look up the
+default pretty-printer for a @code{gdb.Value}:
+
+@findex gdb.default_visualizer
+@defun default_visualizer value
+This function takes a @code{gdb.Value} object as an argument.  If a
+pretty-printer for this value exists, then it is returned.  If no such
+printer exists, then this returns @code{None}.
+@end defun
+
 @node Selecting Pretty-Printers
 @subsubsection Selecting Pretty-Printers
 

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* Re: RFA: document a python function
  2010-08-10 18:05 RFA: document a python function Tom Tromey
@ 2010-08-10 19:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
  2010-08-10 20:22   ` Tom Tromey
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2010-08-10 19:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Tom Tromey; +Cc: gdb-patches

> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:05:28 -0600
> 
> A user noticed that gdb.texinfo does not document the Python function
> gdb.default_visualizer.
> 
> This patch adds documentation for it.
> 
> Please review.

OK.  Thanks.

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* Re: RFA: document a python function
  2010-08-10 19:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2010-08-10 20:22   ` Tom Tromey
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Tom Tromey @ 2010-08-10 20:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: gdb-patches

>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

Eli> OK.  Thanks.

Thanks.  I will check it in soon.
I am also going to commit it to the 7.2 branch.

Tom

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