[Bug python/28856] Python pretty printer causes stack overflow when printing frame arguments

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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28856

--- Comment #5 from Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc at gmail dot com> ---
OK, thanks. I suppose I could just use the class name instead of calling the
name() member. I think my preference would be to try to call the function, and
if that returns a char* then use that, and if it fails (e.g. because there's no
inferior process, just a core) then use the class name. But of course to
gracefully find out if calling the function is possible, it needs to not crash
:-)

For the std:: error categories I can actually avoid calling the name()
function, because GDB can look up the address of the private symbol and compare
the _M_cat pointer to that.

gdb.parse_and_eval('_ZN12_GLOBAL__N_124system_category_instanceE.obj').address

But for user-defined custom categories, I'd like to be able to print the name.

I'll see what I can do to avoid calling the function. Thanks for the guidance.

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