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From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>,
	"Maucci, Cyrille" <cyrille.maucci@hp.com>,
		"gdb@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: working around batch mode command errors
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 20:30:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADPb22TsTNNvRxe8TOcQdGNbW6Tp6bK9WZ5j54OgE0RgRRMQig@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87390vyhxq.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:
>
> Pedro> There's no try/catch mechanism in the CLI unfortunately, but I
> Pedro> think you could come up with one in python gdb.  ISTR Tromey had
> Pedro> a python command wrapper that swallows CLI errors?
>
> Yeah, http://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2010-06/msg00100.html
>
> There's a more full-blown try/catch implementation in bugzilla.
> That one isn't in Python.  I don't know why it never went in.
>
> This seems to be a frequently requested feature.
>
> Tom

I went looking for the bugzilla entry but couldn't find it.

try:
   gdb.execute (...)
except:
  pass

is just too much to type.
</sarcasm> :-)

  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-01 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-28 22:28 Maucci, Cyrille
2012-10-30 17:27 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-10-30 17:39 ` Pedro Alves
2012-10-30 17:43   ` Tom Tromey
2012-11-01 20:30     ` Doug Evans [this message]
2012-11-01 20:38       ` Tom Tromey

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