— Function: gdb.inferiors ()

Return a tuple containing all inferior objects.

— Function: gdb.selected_inferior ()

Return an object representing the current inferior.

— Variable: Inferior.num

ID of inferior, as assigned by GDB.

— Variable: Inferior.connection

The gdb.TargetConnection for this inferior (see Connections In Python), or None if this inferior has no connection.

— Variable: Inferior.connection_num

ID of inferior's connection as assigned by gdb, or None if the inferior is not connected to a target. See Inferiors Connections and Programs. This is equivalent to gdb.Inferior.connection.num in the case where gdb.Inferior.connection is not None.

— Variable: Inferior.pid

Process ID of the inferior, as assigned by the underlying operating system.

— Variable: Inferior.was_attached

Boolean signaling whether the inferior was created using `attach', or started by gdb itself.

— Variable: Inferior.progspace

The inferior's program space. See Progspaces In Python.

— Function: Inferior.is_valid ()

Returns True if the gdb.Inferior object is valid, False if not. A gdb.Inferior object will become invalid if the inferior no longer exists within gdb. All other gdb.Inferior methods will throw an exception if it is invalid at the time the method is called.

— Function: Inferior.threads ()

This method returns a tuple holding all the threads which are valid when it is called. If there are no valid threads, the method will return an empty tuple.

— Function: Inferior.architecture ()

Return the gdb.Architecture (see Architectures In Python) for this inferior. This represents the architecture of the inferior as a whole. Some platforms can have multiple architectures in a single address space, so this may not match the architecture of a particular frame (see Frames In Python).

— Function: Inferior.read_memory (address, length)

Read length addressable memory units from the inferior, starting at address. Returns a buffer object, which behaves much like an array or a string. It can be modified and given to the Inferior.write_memory function. In Python 3, the return value is a memoryview object.

— Function: Inferior.write_memory (address, buffer [, length])

Write the contents of buffer to the inferior, starting at address. The buffer parameter must be a Python object which supports the buffer protocol, i.e., a string, an array or the object returned from Inferior.read_memory. If given, length determines the number of addressable memory units from buffer to be written.

— Function: Inferior.search_memory (address, length, pattern)

Search a region of the inferior memory starting at address with the given length using the search pattern supplied in pattern. The pattern parameter must be a Python object which supports the buffer protocol, i.e., a string, an array or the object returned from gdb.read_memory. Returns a Python Long containing the address where the pattern was found, or None if the pattern could not be found.

— Function: Inferior.thread_from_handle (handle)

Return the thread object corresponding to handle, a thread library specific data structure such as pthread_t for pthreads library implementations.

The function Inferior.thread_from_thread_handle provides the same functionality, but use of Inferior.thread_from_thread_handle is deprecated.