2012-05-02 Siva Chandra Reddy <sivachandra@google.com>

* doc/gdb.texinfo (Blocks In Python): Add a note saying that
	future improvements to GDB and its infrastructure can move
	symbols across blocks within a symbol table.
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2012-05-02 Siva Chandra Reddy <sivachandra@google.com>
* gdb.texinfo (Blocks In Python): Add a note saying that future
improvements to GDB and its infrastructure can move symbols
across blocks within a symbol table.
2012-04-29 Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
* gdb.texinfo (Architectures): Remove menu entry `A29K'.

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stack.
A @code{gdb.Block} is iterable. The iterator returns the symbols
(@pxref{Symbols In Python}) local to the block.
(@pxref{Symbols In Python}) local to the block. Python programs
should not assume that a specific block object will always contain a
given symbol, since changes in @value{GDBN} features and
infrastructure may cause symbols move across blocks in a symbol
table.
The following block-related functions are available in the @code{gdb}
module: