Re: [PATCH] [gdb/python] Throw MemoryError in inferior.read_memory if malloc fails

[Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>]

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de> writes:

Tom> But I couldn't come up with a good rationale as to why I should handle
Tom> MemoryError differently from BaseException, so I decided to catch it
Tom> locally and turn it into a DAPException.

Yeah, makes sense.

Tom> +    try:
Tom> +        buf = gdb.selected_inferior().read_memory(addr, count)
Tom> +    except MemoryError:
Tom> +        raise DAPException("Out of memory")

Here I meant something like:

except MemoryError as e:
   raise DAPException(...) from e

There's an example of this in startup.py.

Tom