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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
bfd Automatic date update in version.in 2018-09-13 00:00:26 +00:00
binutils Fix a use-after-freed error introduced by previous attempt to fix a Coverity scan result. 2018-09-13 16:14:36 +01:00
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contrib Update dg-extract-results.* from gcc 2018-08-06 16:05:16 +02:00
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elfcpp [MIPS] Add Loongson 2K1000 proccessor support. 2018-08-29 20:55:25 +08:00
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gas x86: Swap destination/source to encode VEX only if possible 2018-09-13 06:12:31 -07:00
gdb python: Provide textual representation for Inferior and Objfile 2018-09-13 11:54:38 -04:00
gold [MIPS] Add Loongson 2K1000 proccessor support. 2018-08-29 20:55:25 +08:00
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include Disable -Wformat-nonliteral in parts of printcmd.c 2018-09-05 21:47:33 -06:00
intl Backport gettext fixes to get rid of warnings on macOS 2018-08-02 14:56:02 -04:00
ld Updated Finnish translation for the ld sub-directory. 2018-09-03 13:40:32 +01:00
libdecnumber
libiberty Copy from GCC: Add linker_output as prefix for LTO temps (PR lto/86548). 2018-08-01 14:23:10 +01:00
opcodes x86: Remove VexW=1 from WIG VEX movq and vmovq 2018-09-13 07:38:45 -07:00
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