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<h3 class="section">23.3 Extending <small>GDB</small> using Guile</h3>
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<p>You can extend <small>GDB</small> using the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/">Guile implementation of the Scheme programming language</a>.
This feature is available only if <small>GDB</small> was configured using
<samp>--with-guile</samp>.
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