### 23.4 Auto-loading extensions

GDB provides two mechanisms for automatically loading extensions when a new object file is read (for example, due to the `file` command, or because the inferior has loaded a shared library): `objfile-gdb.ext` and the `.debug_gdb_scripts` section of modern file formats like ELF.

The auto-loading feature is useful for supplying application-specific debugging commands and features.

Auto-loading can be enabled or disabled, and the list of auto-loaded scripts can be printed. See the ‘`auto-loading`’ section of each extension language for more information. For GDB command files see Auto-loading sequences. For Python files see Python Auto-loading.

Note that loading of this script file also requires accordingly configured `auto-load safe-path` (see Auto-loading safe path).