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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>,
	 gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA 1/3] Add new_inferior, inferior_deleted, and new_thread events
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2017 20:41:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d16za9l7.fsf@bapiya> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f61366dead6201a92358f23ab9b45d1c@polymtl.ca> (Simon Marchi's	message of "Sat, 09 Sep 2017 18:46:57 +0200")

Simon> I find the resulting documentation page about Python Events a bit hard
Simon> to follow.  The "events.new_thread" event registry refers to the
Simon> gdb.ThreadEvent type, which itself is defined under the "events.cont"
Simon> registry.  There it says that inferior_thread is always not None in
Simon> none-stop, and always None in all-stop.  That is contradictory with
Simon> the text under "events.new_thread".  If it is possible for event types
Simon> to be emitted by different event registries, I think they should be
Simon> documented separately (on the same page, but in two sections).

I can just make this not be a subclass of ThreadEvent and then clean up
the docs.  Though, there's a PR open about ThreadEvent.inferior_thread
not being set in the all-stop case.

Tom


  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-09 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-09  0:34 [RFA 0/3] add a few Python events Tom Tromey
2017-09-09  0:34 ` [RFA 1/3] Add new_inferior, inferior_deleted, and new_thread events Tom Tromey
2017-09-09  6:55   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-09 16:47     ` Simon Marchi
2017-09-09 20:41       ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2017-09-09 21:09         ` Simon Marchi
2017-09-10  0:21       ` Tom Tromey
2017-09-10 19:37         ` Simon Marchi
2017-09-10 21:52           ` Tom Tromey
2017-09-11 11:54             ` Simon Marchi
2017-09-11 14:29               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-09 16:48   ` Simon Marchi
2017-09-09  0:34 ` [RFA 3/3] Make it simpler to add events to Python Tom Tromey
2017-09-09 14:40   ` Tom Tromey
2017-09-09 17:05   ` Simon Marchi
2017-09-10  0:24     ` Tom Tromey
2017-09-09  0:34 ` [RFA 2/3] Small event ownership clean up in Python layer Tom Tromey
2017-09-09 17:05   ` Simon Marchi

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