Debugging with GDB: Guile API

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23.3.3 Guile API

You can get quick online help for GDB’s Guile API by issuing the command help guile , or by issuing the command ,help from an interactive Guile session. Furthermore, most Guile procedures provided by GDB have doc strings which can be obtained with ,describe procedure-name or ,d procedure-name from the Guile interactive prompt.

• Basic Guile:		Basic Guile Functions
• Guile Configuration:		Guile configuration variables
• GDB Scheme Data Types:		Scheme representations of GDB objects
• Guile Exception Handling:		How Guile exceptions are translated
• Values From Inferior In Guile:		Guile representation of values
• Arithmetic In Guile:		Arithmetic in Guile
• Types In Guile:		Guile representation of types
• Guile Pretty Printing API:		Pretty-printing values with Guile
• Selecting Guile Pretty-Printers:		How GDB chooses a pretty-printer
• Writing a Guile Pretty-Printer:		Writing a pretty-printer
• Commands In Guile:		Implementing new commands in Guile
• Parameters In Guile:		Adding new GDB parameters
• Progspaces In Guile:		Program spaces
• Objfiles In Guile:		Object files in Guile
• Frames In Guile:		Accessing inferior stack frames from Guile
• Blocks In Guile:		Accessing blocks from Guile
• Symbols In Guile:		Guile representation of symbols
• Symbol Tables In Guile:		Guile representation of symbol tables
• Breakpoints In Guile:		Manipulating breakpoints using Guile
• Lazy Strings In Guile:		Guile representation of lazy strings
• Architectures In Guile:		Guile representation of architectures
• Disassembly In Guile:		Disassembling instructions from Guile
• I/O Ports in Guile:		GDB I/O ports
• Memory Ports in Guile:		Accessing memory through ports and bytevectors
• Iterators In Guile:		Basic iterator support

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