If you invoke "help function _caller_is", you'll see that the help
text is indented strangely. The fix for this is to add a call to
gdbpy_fix_doc_string_indentation in the appropriate spot, as is
already done for Python commands and parameters.
Fixed missing operator % on xmethod matcher registration output and, as
suggested on bug 32532, converted both uses of operator % to str.format.
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32352
Change-Id: Ic471516292c2f1d6d1284aaeaea3ec14421decb8
Implement extension_language_ops::find_objfile_from_buildid within
GDB's Python API. Doing this allows users to write Python extensions
that can help locate missing objfiles when GDB opens a core file. A
handler might perform some project- or site-specific actions to find a
missing objfile. Or might provide some project- or site-specific
advice to the user on how they can obtain the missing objfile.
The implementation is very similar to the approach taken in:
commit 8f6c452b5a
Date: Sun Oct 15 22:48:42 2023 +0100
gdb: implement missing debug handler hook for Python
The following new commands are added as commands implemented in
Python, this is similar to how the Python missing debug and unwinder
commands are implemented:
info missing-objfile-handlers
enable missing-objfile-handler LOCUS HANDLER
disable missing-objfile-handler LOCUS HANDLER
To make use of this extension hook a user will create missing objfile
handler objects, and registers these handlers with GDB. When GDB
opens a core file and encounters a missing objfile each handler is
called in turn until one is able to help. Here is a minimal handler
that does nothing useful:
import gdb
import gdb.missing_objfile
class MyFirstHandler(gdb.missing_objfile.MissingObjfileHandler):
def __init__(self):
super().__init__("my_first_handler")
def __call__(self, pspace, build_id, filename):
# This handler does nothing useful.
return None
gdb.missing_objfile.register_handler(None, MyFirstHandler())
Returning None from the __call__ method tells GDB that this handler
was unable to find the missing objfile, and GDB should ask any other
registered handlers.
Possible return values from a handler:
- None: This means the handler couldn't help. GDB will call other
registered handlers to see if they can help instead.
- False: The handler has done all it can, but the objfile couldn't
be found. GDB will not call any other handlers, and will
continue without the objfile.
- True: The handler has installed the objfile into a location where
GDB would normally expect to find it. GDB should repeat its
normal lookup process and the objfile should now be found.
- A string: The handler can return a filename, which is the missing
objfile. GDB will load this file.
Handlers can be registered globally, or per program space. GDB checks
the handlers for the current program space first, and then all of the
global handles. The first handler that returns a value that is not
None, has "handled" the missing objfile, at which point GDB continues.
The implementation of this feature is mostly straight forward. I have
reworked some of the missing debug file related code so that it can be
shared with this feature. E.g. gdb/python/lib/gdb/missing_files.py is
mostly content moved from gdb/python/lib/gdb/missing_debug.py, but
updated to be more generic. Now gdb/python/lib/gdb/missing_debug.py
and the new file gdb/python/lib/gdb/missing_objfile.py both call into
the missing_files.py file.
For gdb/python/lib/gdb/command/missing_files.py this is even more
extreme, gdb/python/lib/gdb/command/missing_debug.py is completely
gone now and gdb/python/lib/gdb/command/missing_files.py provides all
of the new commands in a generic way.
I have made one change to the existing Python API, I renamed the
attribute Progspace.missing_debug_handlers to
Progspace.missing_file_handlers. I don't see this as too
problematic. This attribute was only used to implement the missing
debug feature and was never documented beyond the fact that it
existed. There was no reason for users to be touching this attribute.
Reviewed-By: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
In preparation for later commits in this series, rename
ext_lang_missing_debuginfo_result to ext_lang_missing_file_result.
A later commit will add additional Python APIs to handle different
types of missing files beyond just debuginfo.
This is just a rename commit, there should be no functional changes
after this commit.
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
when I disable a breakpoint in VS Code the breakpoint is removed
instead. I compared the behavior to lldb-dap and disabled events when
removing a breakpoint. Now it is possible to disable and enable
breakpoints in VS Code.
This patch adds separate styling for line numbers. That is, whenever
gdb prints a source line number, it uses this style.
v2 includes a change to ensure that %ps works in query.
Reviewed-By: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Reviewed-by: Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>
With gdb 15.1, python sys.exit no longer makes gdb exit:
...
$ gdb -q -batch -ex "python sys.exit(2)" -ex "print 123"; echo $?
Python Exception <class 'SystemExit'>: 2
Error occurred in Python: 2
$1 = 123
0
...
This is a change in behaviour since commit a207f6b3a3 ("Rewrite "python"
command exception handling"), first available in gdb 15.1.
This patch reverts to the old behaviour by handling PyExc_SystemExit in
gdbpy_handle_exception, such what we have instead:
...
$ gdb -q -batch -ex "python sys.exit(2)" -ex "print 123"; echo $?
2
...
Tested on x86_64-linux, with python 3.6 and 3.13.
Tested-By: Guinevere Larsen <blarsen@redhat.com>
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
PR python/31946
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31946
GDB deprecated the commands "show/set mpx bound" in GDB 15.1, as Intel
listed Intel(R) Memory Protection Extensions (MPX) as removed in 2019.
MPX is also deprecated in gcc (since v9.1), the linux kernel (since v5.6)
and glibc (since v2.35). Let's now remove MPX support in GDB completely.
This includes the removal of:
- MPX functionality including register support
- deprecated mpx commands
- i386 and amd64 implementation of the hooks report_signal_info and
get_siginfo_type
- tests
- and pretty printer.
We keep MPX register numbers to not break compatibility with old gdbservers.
Approved-By: Felix Willgerodt <felix.willgerodt@intel.com>
Removing the pretty printer (bound_registers.py) in the next commit
leads to failures due to a missing import of 'gdb.printing':
"AttributeError: module 'gdb' has no attribute 'printing'".
Add this import to each file requiring it, as it's not imported by the
pretty-printer anymore.
Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
Newer Intel CPUs support recording asynchronous events in the PT trace.
Libipt also recently added support for decoding these.
This patch adds support for interrupt events, based on the existing aux
infrastructure. GDB can now display such events during the record
instruction-history and function-call-history commands.
Subsequent patches will add the rest of the events currently supported.
Approved-By: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Result of:
...
$ search="GDB_PY_SET_HANDLE_EXCEPTION ("
$ replace="return gdbpy_handle_gdb_exception (-1, "
$ sed -i \
"s/$search/$replace/" \
gdb/python/*.c
...
Also remove the now unused GDB_PY_SET_HANDLE_EXCEPTION.
No functional changes.
Tested on x86_64-linux.
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Result of:
...
$ search="GDB_PY_HANDLE_EXCEPTION ("
$ replace="return gdbpy_handle_gdb_exception (nullptr, "
$ sed -i \
"s/$search/$replace/" \
gdb/python/*.c
...
Also remove the now unused GDB_PY_HANDLE_EXCEPTION.
No functional changes.
Tested on x86_64-linux.
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
I've recently committed two patches:
- commit 2f8cd40c37 ("[gdb/python] Use GDB_PY_HANDLE_EXCEPTION more often")
- commit fbf8e4c35c ("[gdb/python] Use GDB_PY_SET_HANDLE_EXCEPTION more often")
which use the macros GDB_PY_HANDLE_EXCEPTION and GDB_PY_SET_HANDLE_EXCEPTION
more often, with the goal of making things more consistent.
Having done that, I wondered if a better approach could be possible.
Consider GDB_PY_HANDLE_EXCEPTION:
...
/* Use this in a 'catch' block to convert the exception to a Python
exception and return nullptr. */
#define GDB_PY_HANDLE_EXCEPTION(Exception) \
do { \
gdbpy_convert_exception (Exception); \
return nullptr; \
} while (0)
...
The macro nicely codifies how python handles exceptions:
- setting an error condition using some PyErr_Set* variant, and
- returning a value implying that something went wrong
presumably with the goal that using the macro will mean not accidentally:
- forgetting to return on error, or
- returning the wrong value on error.
The problems are that:
- the macro hides control flow, specifically the return statement, and
- the macro hides the return value.
For example, when reading somewhere:
...
catch (const gdb_exception &except)
{
GDB_PY_HANDLE_EXCEPTION (except);
}
...
in order to understand what this does, you have to know that the macro
returns, and that it returns nullptr.
Add a template gdbpy_handle_gdb_exception:
...
template<typename T>
[[nodiscard]] T
gdbpy_handle_gdb_exception (T val, const gdb_exception &e)
{
gdbpy_convert_exception (e);
return val;
}
...
which can be used instead:
...
catch (const gdb_exception &except)
{
return gdbpy_handle_gdb_exception (nullptr, except);
}
...
[ Initially I tried this:
...
template<auto val>
[[nodiscard]] auto
gdbpy_handle_gdb_exception (const gdb_exception &e)
{
gdbpy_convert_exception (e);
return val;
}
...
with which the usage is slightly better looking:
...
catch (const gdb_exception &except)
{
return gdbpy_handle_gdb_exception<nullptr> (except);
}
...
but I ran into trouble with older gcc compilers. ]
While still a single statement, we now have it clear:
- that the statement returns,
- what value the statement returns.
[ FWIW, this could also be handled by say:
...
- GDB_PY_HANDLE_EXCEPTION (except);
+ GDB_PY_HANDLE_EXCEPTION_AND_RETURN_VAL (except, nullptr);
...
but I still didn't find the fact that it returns easy to spot.
Alternatively, this is the simplest form we could use:
...
return gdbpy_convert_exception (e), nullptr;
...
but the pairing would not necessarily survive a copy/paste/edit cycle. ]
Also note how making the value explicit makes it easier to check for
consistency:
...
catch (const gdb_exception &except)
{
return gdbpy_handle_gdb_exception (-1, except);
}
if (PyErr_Occurred ())
return -1;
...
given that we do use the explicit constants almost everywhere else.
Compared to using GDB_PY_HANDLE_EXCEPTION, there is the burden now to specify
the return value, but I assume that this will be generally copy-pasted and
therefore present no problem.
Also, there's no longer a guarantee that there's an immediate return, but I
assume that nodiscard making sure that the return value is not silently
ignored is sufficient mitigation.
For now, re-implement GDB_PY_HANDLE_EXCEPTION and GDB_PY_SET_HANDLE_EXCEPTION
in terms of gdbpy_handle_gdb_exception.
Follow-up patches will eliminate the macros.
No functional changes.
Tested on x86_64-linux.
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
PR python/32163 points out that various types provided by gdb are not
added to the gdb module, so they aren't available for interactive
inspection. I think this is just an oversight.
This patch fixes the problem by introducing a new helper function that
both readies the type and then adds it to the appropriate module. The
patch also poisons PyType_Ready, the idea being to avoid this bug in
the future.
v2:
* Fixed a bug in original patch in gdb.Architecture registration
* Added regression test for the types mentioned in the bug
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32163
Reviewed-By: Alexandra Petlanova Hajkova <ahajkova@redhat.com>
Oleg Tolmatcev noticed that DAP launch and attach requests don't
properly handle Windows filenames, because "file" doesn't handle the
backslash characters correctly. This patch adds quoting to the
command in an attempt to fix this.
The commit:
commit 29c7078711
Date: Sun Sep 8 07:46:09 2024 +0200
[gdb/testsuite] Handle missing curses in gdb.python/py-missing-debug.exp
Highlighted that in some cases we might be running on a system with an
older version of Python (earlier than 3.7), and on a system for which
the curses library has not been installed.
In these circumstances the gdb.missing_debug module will not load as
it uses curses to provide isalnum() and isascii() functions.
To avoid this problem I propose that we copy the isalnum() and
isascii() from the Python curses library. These functions are
basically trivial and removing the curses dependency means GDB will
work in more cases without increasing its dependencies.
I did consider keeping the uses of curses and only having the function
definitions be a fallback for when the curses library failed to load,
but this felt like overkill. The function definitions are both tiny
and I think "obvious" given their specifications, so I figure we might
as well just use our own definitions if they are not available as
builtin methods on the str class.
For testing I changed this line:
if sys.version_info >= (3, 7):
to
if sys.version_info >= (3, 7) and False:
then reran gdb.python/py-missing-debug.exp, there were no failures.
Approved-By: Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
This removes tui_wrefresh, moving the code into refresh_window. We
remove tui_norefresh_window as well, because now the command window's
refresh_window has to do what tui_wrefresh previously did.
This patch renames tui_suppress_output to the more descriptive
tui_batch_rendering. This code was never really correct, and was
based on a misunderstanding of the curses API. The updated comments
describe the intended use of this class.
This also removes the erroneous tui_win_info::no_refresh.
wnoutrefresh does not prevent any output; rather, it copies from one
curses buffer to another but (unlike woutrefresh) without then
flushing to the screen.
tui_batch_rendering now works in the correct way: calling doupdate in
the destructor of the outermost instance, thus batching all screen
output until that point.
The patch adds instantiations of tui_batch_rendering to various spots,
to make sure it is active when refreshing.
Unfortunately we have two different types of filename completion in
GDB.
The majority of commands have what I call unquoted filename
completion, this is for commands like 'set logging file ...', 'target
core ...', and 'add-auto-load-safe-path ...'. For these commands
everything after the command name (that is not a command option) is
treated as a single filename. If the filename contains white space
then this does not need to be escaped, nor does the filename need to
be quoted. In fact, the filename argument is not de-quoted, and does
not have any escaping removed, so if a user does try to add such
things, they will be treated as part of the filename. As an example:
(gdb) target core "/path/that contains/some white space"
Will look for a directory calls '"' (double quotes) in the local
directory.
A small number of commands do de-quote and remove escapes from
filename arguments. These command accept what I call quoted and
escaped filenames. Right now these are the commands that specify the
file for GDB to debug, so:
file
exec-file
symbol-file
add-symbol-file
remove-symbol-file
As an example of this in action:
(gdb) file "/path/that contains/some white space"
In this case GDB would load the file:
/path/that contains/some white space
Current filename completion always assumes that filenames can be
quoted, though escaping doesn't work in completion right now. But the
assumption that quoting is allowed is clearly wrong.
This commit splits filename completion into two. The existing
filename_completer is retained, and is used for unquoted filenames. A
second filename_maybe_quoted_completer is added which can be used for
completing quoted filenames.
The filename completion test has been extended to cover more cases.
As part of the extended testing I need to know the character that
should be used to separate filenames within a path. For this TCL 8.6+
has $::tcl_platform(pathSeparator). To support older versions of TCL
I've added some code to testsuite/lib/gdb.exp.
You might notice that after this commit the completion for unquoted
files is all done in the brkchars phase, that is the function
filename_completer_handle_brkchars calculates the completions and
marks the completion_tracker as using a custom word point. The reason
for this is that we don't want to break on white space for this
completion, but if we rely on readline to find the completion word,
readline will consider the entire command line, and with no white
space in the word break character set, readline will end up using the
entire command line as the word to complete.
For now at least, the completer for quoted filenames does generate its
completions during the completion phase, though this is going to
change in a later commit.
I did a review of lines containing "catch (gdb_exception" and found a few
where we can add const.
Tested on x86_64-linux.
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
In type_to_type_object we have:
...
try
{
if (type->is_stub ())
type = check_typedef (type);
}
catch (...)
{
/* Just ignore failures in check_typedef. */
}
...
The catch is supposed to ignore gdb_exception_error, but it ignores any
exception.
Fix that by only ignoring gdb_exception_error, and handling
gdb_exception_quit / gdb_exception_forced_quit using GDB_PY_HANDLE_EXCEPTION.
Tested on x86_64-linux.
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
The relatively new "globals" scope code in DAP has a fairly obvious
bug -- the fetch_one_child method should return a tuple with two
elements, but instead just returns the variable's value.
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32029
Reviewed-By: Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
I think it would be useful for gdb's DAP logs to come with the version
and configuration information. This might make debugging some bug
reports a little simpler.
While working on earlier patches, I noticed that the DAP C++ exception
test had some strange results in the log. Digging into this, I found
that while the Ada catchpoints emit a "bkptno" field in the MI result,
the C++ ones do not -- but the DAP code was relying on this.
This patch fixes the problem by changing which field is examined, and
then updates the tests to verify this.
Reviewed-by: Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>
Currently, when a DAP client uses setInstructionBreakpoints, the
resulting breakpoints are created as "verified", even though there is
no symbol file and thus the breakpoint can't possibly have a source
location.
This patch changes the DAP code to assume that all breakpoints are
unverified before launch.
Reviewed-by: Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>
This adds a new exec_mi_and_log function that wraps gdb.execute_mi and
logs the command. This can be handy when debugging DAP.
Reviewed-by: Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>
By default GDB will be printing the hex payload of the ptwrite package as
auxiliary information. To customize this, the user can register a ptwrite
filter function in python, that takes the payload and the PC as arguments and
returns a string which will be printed instead. Registering the filter
function is done using a factory pattern to make per-thread filtering easier.
Approved-By: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
This function allows to clear the trace data from python, forcing to
re-decode the trace for successive commands.
This will be used in future ptwrite patches, to trigger re-decoding when
the ptwrite filter changes.
Reviewed-By: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Approved-By: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Auxiliary instructions are no real instructions and get their own object
class, similar to gaps. gdb.Record.instruction_history is now possibly a
list of gdb.RecordInstruction, gdb.RecordGap or gdb.RecordAuxiliary
objects.
This patch is in preparation for the new ptwrite feature, which is based on
auxiliary instructions.
Approved-By: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Reviewed-By: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
This is a simple find / replace from "struct bound_minimal_symbol" to
"bound_minimal_symbol", to make things shorter and more consisten
througout. In some cases, move variable declarations where first used.
Change-Id: Ica4af11c4ac528aa842bfa49a7afe8fe77a66849
Reviewed-by: Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>
Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
Inspired by the trigger patch I used here [1], I tried this in
gdbpy_print_insn:
...
/* Call into the registered disassembler to (possibly) perform the
disassembly. */
+ set_quit_flag ();
PyObject *insn_disas_obj = (PyObject *) disasm_info;
gdbpy_ref<> result (PyObject_CallFunctionObjArgs (hook.get (),
insn_disas_obj,
...
and with test-case gdb.python/py-disasm-exec.exp ran into:
...
(gdb) disassemble test^M
Dump of assembler code for function test:^M
0x00000000004101ac <+0>: Python Exception <class 'KeyboardInterrupt'>: ^M
^M
unknown disassembler error (error = -1)^M
(gdb)
...
This is incorrect, the KeyboardInterrupt should propagate and interrupt the
command.
Fix this by using gdbpy_print_stack_or_quit instead of gdbpy_print_stack in
gdbpy_print_insn, giving us instead:
...
(gdb) disassemble test^M
Dump of assembler code for function test:^M
0x00000000004101ac <+0>: ^M
Quit^M
(gdb)
...
Tested on aarch64-linux.
Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
[1] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2024-July/210798.html
Currently an internal function handler has this prototype:
...
struct value *handler (struct gdbarch *gdbarch,
const struct language_defn *language,
void *cookie, int argc, struct value **argv);
...
Also allow an internal function with a handler with an additional
"enum noside noside" parameter:
...
struct value *handler (struct gdbarch *gdbarch,
const struct language_defn *language, void *cookie,
int argc, struct value **argv, enum noside noside);
...
In case such a handler is called with noside == EVAL_AVOID_SIDE_EFFECTS, it's
expected to return some value with the correct return type.
At least, provided it can do so without side effects, otherwise it should
throw an error.
No functional changes.
Tested on x86_64-linux and aarch64-linux.
Reviewed-By: Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>
C++ 11 has a built-in attribute for this, no need to use a compat macro.
Change-Id: I90e4220d26e8f3949d91761f8a13cd9c37da3875
Reviewed-by: Lancelot Six <lancelot.six@amd.com>
Make the current program space reference bubble up one level.
Change-Id: I6ba6dc4a2cb188720cbb61b84ab5c954aac105c6
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Reviewed-By: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>
In commit 764af87825 ("[gdb/python] Add typesafe wrapper around
PyObject_CallMethod") I added poisoning of PyObject_CallMethod:
...
/* Poison PyObject_CallMethod. The typesafe wrapper gdbpy_call_method should be
used instead. */
template<typename... Args>
PyObject *
PyObject_CallMethod (Args...);
...
The idea was that subsequent code would be forced to use gdbpy_call_method
instead of PyObject_CallMethod.
However, that caused build issues with gcc 14 and python 3.13:
...
/usr/bin/ld: python/py-disasm.o: in function `gdb::ref_ptr<_object, gdbpy_ref_policy<_object> > gdbpy_call_method<unsigned int, long long>(_object*, char const*, unsigned int, long long)':
/data/vries/gdb/src/gdb/python/python-internal.h:207:(.text+0x384f): undefined reference to `_object* PyObject_CallMethod<_object*, char*, char*, unsigned int, long long>(_object*, char*, char*, unsigned int, long long)'
/usr/bin/ld: python/py-tui.o: in function `gdb::ref_ptr<_object, gdbpy_ref_policy<_object> > gdbpy_call_method<int>(_object*, char const*, int)':
/data/vries/gdb/src/gdb/python/python-internal.h:207:(.text+0x1235): undefined reference to `_object* PyObject_CallMethod<_object*, char*, char*, int>(_object*, char*, char*, int)'
/usr/bin/ld: python/py-tui.o: in function `gdb::ref_ptr<_object, gdbpy_ref_policy<_object> > gdbpy_call_method<int, int, int>(_object*, char const*, int, int, int)':
/data/vries/gdb/src/gdb/python/python-internal.h:207:(.text+0x12b0): undefined reference to `_object* PyObject_CallMethod<_object*, char*, char*, int, int, int>(_object*, char*, char*, int, int, int)'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
...
Fix this by poisoning without using templates.
Tested on x86_64-linux.
The following recent change introduced a regression when building using
clang++:
commit 764af87825
Date: Wed Jun 12 18:58:49 2024 +0200
[gdb/python] Add typesafe wrapper around PyObject_CallMethod
The error message is:
../../gdb/python/python-internal.h:151:16: error: default initialization of an object of const type 'const char'
constexpr char gdbpy_method_format;
^
= '\0'
CXX python/py-block.o
1 error generated.
make[2]: *** [Makefile:1959: python/py-arch.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
In file included from ../../gdb/python/py-auto-load.c:25:
../../gdb/python/python-internal.h:151:16: error: default initialization of an object of const type 'const char'
constexpr char gdbpy_method_format;
^
= '\0'
1 error generated.
make[2]: *** [Makefile:1959: python/py-auto-load.o] Error 1
In file included from ../../gdb/python/py-block.c:23:
../../gdb/python/python-internal.h:151:16: error: default initialization of an object of const type 'const char'
constexpr char gdbpy_method_format;
^
= '\0'
1 error generated.
This patch fixes this by changing gdbpy_method_format to be a templated
struct, and only have its specializations define the static constexpr
member "format". This way, we avoid having an uninitialized constexpr
expression, regardless of it being instantiated or not.
Reviewed-By: Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
Change-Id: I5bec241144f13500ef78daea30f00d01e373692d
This changes gdbpy_call_method to return a gdbpy_ref<>. This is
slightly safer because it makes it simpler to correctly handle
reference counts.
Reviewed-By: Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
In gdb/python/py-tui.c we have code like this:
...
gdbpy_ref<> result (PyObject_CallMethod (m_window.get(), "hscroll",
"i", num_to_scroll, nullptr));
...
The nullptr is superfluous, the format string already indicates that there's
only one method argument.
OTOH, passing no method args does use a nullptr:
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gdbpy_ref<> result (PyObject_CallMethod (m_window.get (), "render",
nullptr));
...
Furthermore, choosing the right format string chars can be tricky.
Add a typesafe wrapper around PyObject_CallMethod that hides these
details, such that we can use the more intuitive:
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gdbpy_ref<> result (gdbpy_call_method (m_window.get(), "hscroll",
num_to_scroll));
...
and:
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gdbpy_ref<> result (gdbpy_call_method (m_window.get (), "render"));
...
Tested on x86_64-linux.
Co-Authored-By: Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Under certain circumstances, a floating point exception in
target_read_string() can happen when the type has been obtained
by a call to stpy_lazy_string_elt_type(). In the latter function,
a call to check_typedef() has been forgotten. This makes
type->length = 0 in this case.
