From: Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@embecosm.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@web.de>, Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 4/8] GDB/Python: Make `None' stand for `unlimited' in setting integer parameters
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 10:26:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <769967d8-d2df-5f65-aed8-0c37c7efffc6@polymtl.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.2208171725330.10833@tpp.orcam.me.uk>
On 2022-08-17 18:04, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> Similarly to booleans and following the fix for PR python/29217 make
> `gdb.parameter' accept `None' for `unlimited' with parameters of the
> PARAM_UINTEGER, PARAM_INTEGER, and PARAM_ZUINTEGER_UNLIMITED types, as
> `None' is already returned by parameters of the two former types, so
> one might expect to be able to feed it back. It also makes it possible
> to avoid the need to know what the internal integer representation is
> for the special setting of `unlimited'.
If I understand correctly, assigning None used to just raise an
exception, and now it will be accepted for those kinds of parameters.
So, I don't think there are backwards compatibility concerns here. If
so:
Approved-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
Simon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-17 14:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-17 22:03 [PATCH v6 0/8] gdb: split array and string limiting options Maciej W. Rozycki
2022-08-17 22:03 ` [PATCH v6 1/8] GDB/Guile: Don't assert that an integer value is boolean Maciej W. Rozycki
2022-10-17 13:43 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2022-10-21 7:58 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2022-10-21 18:44 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2022-10-21 20:54 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2022-10-22 0:48 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2022-08-17 22:03 ` [PATCH v6 2/8] GDB/doc: Document the Guile `#:unlimited' keyword Maciej W. Rozycki
2022-08-18 6:06 ` Eli Zaretskii via Gdb-patches
2022-09-01 10:31 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2022-08-17 22:04 ` [PATCH v6 3/8] GDB/testsuite: Expand Python integer parameter coverage across all types Maciej W. Rozycki
2022-10-17 13:56 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2022-10-21 7:59 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2022-08-17 22:04 ` [PATCH v6 4/8] GDB/Python: Make `None' stand for `unlimited' in setting integer parameters Maciej W. Rozycki
2022-10-17 14:26 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches [this message]
2022-10-21 8:03 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2022-08-17 22:04 ` [PATCH v6 5/8] GDB/Python: Use None for `var_zuinteger_unlimited' value set to `unlimited' Maciej W. Rozycki
2022-08-18 6:08 ` Eli Zaretskii via Gdb-patches
2022-10-17 15:02 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2022-10-29 15:58 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2022-10-31 13:00 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2022-10-31 13:31 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2022-11-01 12:28 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2022-10-26 11:58 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2022-10-29 13:52 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2022-10-31 8:14 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2022-10-31 12:37 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2022-10-31 13:08 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2022-10-31 13:14 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2022-10-31 14:05 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2022-08-17 22:04 ` [PATCH v6 6/8] GDB: Allow arbitrary keywords in integer set commands Maciej W. Rozycki
2022-08-17 22:05 ` [PATCH v6 7/8] GDB: Add a character string limiting option Maciej W. Rozycki
2022-08-17 22:05 ` [PATCH v6 8/8] GDB/testsuite: Expand for character string limiting options Maciej W. Rozycki
2022-08-18 0:07 ` [PATCH v6.1 " Maciej W. Rozycki
2022-09-01 10:32 ` [PING][PATCH v6 0/8] gdb: split array and " Maciej W. Rozycki
2022-09-08 9:37 ` [PING^2][PATCH " Maciej W. Rozycki
2022-09-14 17:43 ` [PING^3][PATCH " Maciej W. Rozycki
2022-09-22 22:07 ` [PING^4][PATCH " Maciej W. Rozycki
2022-09-29 7:09 ` [PING^5][PATCH " Maciej W. Rozycki
2022-09-29 7:12 ` Simon Sobisch via Gdb-patches
2022-10-06 15:46 ` [PING^6][PATCH " Maciej W. Rozycki
2022-10-12 21:19 ` [PING^7][PATCH " Maciej W. Rozycki
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