Simon Marchi 1256af7d1a python: Provide textual representation for Inferior and Objfile ... Printing a GDB Python object is notoriously not helpful: >>> print(gdb.selected_inferior()) <gdb.Inferior object at 0x7fea59aed198> >>> print(gdb.objfiles()) [<gdb.Objfile object at 0x7fea59b57c90>] This makes printing debug traces more difficult than it should be. This patch provides some repr() implementation for these two types (more to come if people agree with the idea, but I want to test the water first). Here's the same example as above, but with this patch: >>> print(gdb.selected_inferior()) <gdb.Inferior num=1> >>> print(gdb.objfiles()) [<gdb.Objfile filename=/home/emaisin/build/binutils-gdb-gcc-git/gdb/test>] I implemented repr rather than str, because when printing a list (or another container I suppose), Python calls the repr method of the elements. This is useful when printing a list of inferiors or objfiles. The print(gdb.objfiles()) above would not have worked if I had implemented str. I found this post useful to understand the difference between repr and str: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1436703/difference-between-str-and-repr gdb/ChangeLog: * python/py-inferior.c (infpy_repr): New. (inferior_object_type): Register infpy_repr. * python/py-objfile.c (objfpy_repr): New. (objfile_object_type): Register objfpy_repr. gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog: * gdb.python/py-inferior.exp: Test repr() of gdb.Inferior. * gdb.python/py-objfile.exp: Test repr() of gdb.Objfile. * gdb.python/py-symtab.exp: Update test printing an objfile. gdb/doc/ChangeLog: * python.texi (Basic Python): Mention the string representation of GDB Python objects.		2018-09-13 11:54:38 -04:00
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