Re: [PATCH 2/5] gdb/python: new gdb.architecture_names function

[Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>]

Hi Andrew,

Sorry to reply only after you have merged this.  I just have a question
about the API.

On 2021-10-13 17:59, Andrew Burgess wrote:
> Add a new function to the Python API, gdb.architecture_names().  This
> function returns a list containing all of the supported architecture
> names within the current build of GDB.
> 
> The values returned in this list are all of the possible values that
> can be returned from gdb.Architecture.name().

Did you consider having a `gdb.architectures()` function, that returns a
list of gdb.Architecture objects?  And then, if you want the names, you
use gdb.Architecture.name:

    for arch in gdb.architectures():
	print(arch.name)

Being able to get the gdb.Architecture objects instead of just the name
sounds more flexible / future-proof to me.  Like, we have
`gdb.breakpoints()`, not `gdb.breakpoint_nums()`.  But there is perhaps
a technical reason why this doesn't work or isn't a good idea.

Simon