From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:24:54 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: 	* gdb.texinfo (Pretty Printing API): Document
X-Git-Tag: gdb_7_2-2010-09-02-release~43
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	* gdb.texinfo (Pretty Printing API): Document
	gdb.default_visualizer.
---

diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
index 41e15ef7141..1ed95eedc38 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2010-08-10  Tom Tromey  <tromey@redhat.com>
+
+	* gdb.texinfo (Pretty Printing API): Document
+	gdb.default_visualizer.
+
 2010-08-09  Jan Kratochvil  <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
 	    Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
 
diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
index 16a8a775732..09c39ebfa70 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
@@ -21088,6 +21088,16 @@ are peformed in this method and nothing is printed.
 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