From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27427 invoked by alias); 10 Oct 2013 19:10:07 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 27411 invoked by uid 89); 10 Oct 2013 19:10:07 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 10 Oct 2013 19:10:06 +0000 Received: from int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r9AJ50Zw020572 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 10 Oct 2013 15:05:01 -0400 Received: from barimba (ovpn-113-128.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.113.128]) by int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r9AJ4wWY029146 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 10 Oct 2013 15:04:59 -0400 From: Tom Tromey To: Sanimir Agovic Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, pmuldoon@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] prevent gdb.Frame/Objfile and other types to be instanciated References: <1377873604-15519-1-git-send-email-sanimir.agovic@intel.com> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 19:10:00 -0000 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") Message-ID: <877gdl6j6t.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-SW-Source: 2013-10/txt/msg00359.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Sanimir" == Sanimir Agovic 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