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From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] Document two argument form of gdb.Value constructor
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 15:09:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190218080907.06fd65af@f29-4.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190218075816.6f67f3d9@f29-4.lan>

gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
    
            * python.texi (Values From Inferior): Document second form
            of Value.__init__.
---
 gdb/doc/python.texi | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gdb/doc/python.texi b/gdb/doc/python.texi
index 2860361c33..f6df32e76d 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/python.texi
+++ b/gdb/doc/python.texi
@@ -735,6 +735,13 @@ its result is used.
 @end table
 @end defun
 
+@defun Value.__init__ (@var{val}, @r{[}, type @r{]})
+This second form of the @code{gdb.Value} constructor returns a gdb
+value of type @{type} where the value contents are taken from the
+python buffer object specified by @var{val}.  The number of bytes in
+the python buffer object must be greater than or equal to the size of
+@var{type}.
+
 @defun Value.cast (type)
 Return a new instance of @code{gdb.Value} that is the result of
 casting this instance to the type described by @var{type}, which must


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-02-18 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20190218075816.6f67f3d9@f29-4.lan>
2019-02-18 15:03 ` [PATCH 1/4] Define unique_ptr specialization for Py_buffer Kevin Buettner
2019-02-18 15:06 ` [PATCH 2/4] Define gdb.Value(bufobj, type) constructor Kevin Buettner
2019-02-18 22:46   ` Tom Tromey
2019-02-19  0:57     ` Kevin Buettner
2019-02-19 15:19       ` Tom Tromey
2019-02-19 15:28         ` Ulrich Weigand
2019-02-19  2:41   ` Simon Marchi
2019-02-18 15:07 ` [PATCH 3/4] Add tests for " Kevin Buettner
2019-02-19  2:46   ` Simon Marchi
2019-02-18 15:09 ` Kevin Buettner [this message]
2019-02-18 16:13   ` [PATCH 4/4] Document two argument form of gdb.Value constructor Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-18 17:25     ` Kevin Buettner
2019-02-18 17:45       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-19  2:48 ` [PATCH 0/4] Define gdb.Value(val, type) constructor Simon Marchi

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