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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Sanimir Agovic <sanimir.agovic@intel.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, pmuldoon@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] prevent gdb.Frame/Objfile and other types to be instanciated
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 19:10:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877gdl6j6t.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1377873604-15519-1-git-send-email-sanimir.agovic@intel.com>	(Sanimir Agovic's message of "Fri, 30 Aug 2013 16:40:02 +0200")

>>>>> "Sanimir" == Sanimir Agovic <sanimir.agovic@intel.com> writes:

Sanimir> as discussed in
Sanimir> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2013-08/msg00848.html the
Sanimir> gdb/python interface exposes types which should not be
Sanimir> instanciated directly by python code. This patch now raising a
Sanimir> TypeError if one instanciate such type.

It seems like a reasonable plan to me.
We never intended to allow instantiation of these objects; and most of
them are actually useless if instantiated.

Tom


      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-10 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-30 14:40 Sanimir Agovic
2013-08-30 14:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] test: ensure certain types exposed to python are not instancable Sanimir Agovic
2013-10-10 19:14   ` Tom Tromey
2013-10-10 19:59     ` Paul_Koning
2013-08-30 14:40 ` [PATCH 1/2] python: disallow python code to instanciate certain types Sanimir Agovic
2013-08-30 15:08   ` Phil Muldoon
2013-10-10 19:08     ` Tom Tromey
2013-10-10 19:06   ` Tom Tromey
2013-10-10 19:10 ` Tom Tromey [this message]

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