Re: [PATCH] Allow calling of C++ methods from python

[Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>]

>>>>> "Hannes" == Hannes Domani <ssbssa@yahoo.de> writes:

Hannes>   static int static_func ();

Hannes> (gdb) py b_obj = gdb.parse_and_eval('b_obj')
Hannes> (gdb) py print(b_obj['static_func']())
Hannes> Traceback (most recent call last):
Hannes>   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
Hannes> RuntimeError: Value is not callable (not TYPE_CODE_FUNC).

I'm a bit surprised that a static method is not TYPE_CODE_FUNC.
It seems like it should be, because these are really just functions.

Hannes> (gdb) py print(b_obj['arg0_func']())
Hannes> Traceback (most recent call last):
Hannes>   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
Hannes> gdb.error: Too few arguments in function call.
Hannes> Error while executing Python code.
Hannes> (gdb) py print(b_obj['arg0_func'](b_obj))
Hannes> 198

How does this interact with overloading?

It seems to me that either b_obj['name'] has to return some kind of
overload set, or we need a different API, like b_obj.call_method('name', ...).

In the latter case we could have it automatically supply 'this', at
least when it's needed.

Tom