From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 128729 invoked by alias); 19 Feb 2019 21:34:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 128415 invoked by uid 89); 19 Feb 2019 21:34:01 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*MI:lan, H*M:lan, defun X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 19 Feb 2019 21:33:58 +0000 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AAB44C049DC1; Tue, 19 Feb 2019 21:33:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from f29-4.lan (ovpn-117-11.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.117.11]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6FB2319C57; Tue, 19 Feb 2019 21:33:57 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 21:34:00 -0000 From: Kevin Buettner To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Cc: Tom Tromey , Simon Marchi , Eli Zaretskii Subject: [PATCH v2 0/4] Define gdb.Value(val, type) constructor Message-ID: <20190219143356.1576e67f@f29-4.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-02/txt/msg00309.txt.bz2 This four part patch series defines a two argument constructor for gdb.Value. gdb.Value currently has a one argument constructor. It takes a python value, figures out some potentially suitable gdb type and then constructs a gdb value of that type. The two argument version that I'm introducing is useful for constructing a gdb value of a specified type from a buffer of bytes. It takes the form gdb.Value (val, type). VAL is a python buffer object, i.e. an object from which bytes may be read using python's buffer protocol. TYPE is a gdb type perhaps obtained by calling gdb.lookup_type(). Changes between the original series and this v2 series are as follows: Patch #1: No changes. Patch #2: Fix wording of comment noted by Simon. Change PyExc_RuntimeError to PyExc_TypeError for "type argument must be a gdb.Type" error. I found this while adding the additional test that Simon suggested. Patch #3: Add test which invokes gdb.Value where second argument is not a gdb.Type. (Suggested by Simon.) Patch #4: Add NEWS entry. (Requested by Eli.) Made other python.texi changes requested by Eli. Added missing "@end defun".