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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Chris Johns <chris@contemporary.net.au>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Reading a static variable in Python
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Reply-To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:53:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <4B984C19.80407@contemporary.net.au> (Chris Johns's message of 	"Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:49:13 +1100")
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>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Johns <chris@contemporary.net.au> writes:

Tom> Use gdb.parse_and_eval.

Chris> Nice. This is an excellent solution. I suppose being an expression it
Chris> can do the pointer maths as well. I was looking at ways to construct a
Chris> gdb.Value with a gdb.Symbol as an argument.

Yes, strangely there doesn't seem to be a way to do that.
If you want this, feel free to file a bug report for it...

Tom