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Documentation: Provide hints on how to debug Python GDB scripts

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By default GDB does not print a full stack of its integrated Python
interpreter, thus making the debugging of GDB scripts more painful than
it has to be.

Suggested-by: Radu Rendec <radu@rendec.net>
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Radu Rendec <radu@rendec.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260326233226.2248817-1-florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
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Detailed help can be obtained via "help <command-name>" for commands and "help
function <function-name>" for convenience functions.
Debugging GDB scripts
---------------------
GDB does not enable a full Python backtrace which can make debugging GDB
scripts more difficult than necessary. The following will allow for printing a
full backtrace of the python environment::
(gdb) set python print-stack full