Re: [PATCH 7/8] Add new Python APIs to support DAP value display

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2023 09:25:13 -0600
> From: Tom Tromey via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> 
> gdb's language code may know how to display values specially.  For
> example, the Rust code understands that &str is a string-like type, or
> Ada knows how to handle unconstrained arrays.  This knowledge is
> exposed via val-print, and via varobj -- but currently not via DAP.
> 
> This patch adds some support code to let DAP also handle these cases,
> though in a somewhat more generic way.
> 
> Type.is_array_like and Value.to_array are added to make Python aware
> of the cases where gdb knows that a structure type is really
> "array-like".
> 
> Type.is_string_like is added to make Python aware of cases where gdb's
> language code knows that a type is string-like.
> 
> Unlike Value.string, these cases are handled by the type's language,
> rather than the current language.
> ---
>  gdb/NEWS              |  8 ++++++++
>  gdb/doc/python.texi   | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  gdb/python/py-type.c  | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  gdb/python/py-value.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 126 insertions(+)

Thanks, the documentation parts are okay.

Reviewed-By: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>