Re: [PATCH v1 3/6] gdb: introduce helper class file_reader_t

[Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>]

Matthieu Longo <matthieu.longo@arm.com> writes:

> Wrap all the boilerplate code required to read a file in a new helper
> class: file_reader_t. The class owns the file contents together with
> the file path, and provides convenient accessors for the data, size and
> typed views. It supports both null-terminated text files and binary files.
>
> This helper eliminates repeated calls to target_fileio_read_stralloc
> and target_fileio_read_alloc, remove explicit memory management with
> gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr, and simplifies the casting logic when working
> with binary data.
>
> The patch converts some of the existing Linux, AMD64, and SPARC code that
> reads files from /proc to use file_reader_t.
> ---
>  gdb/amd64-linux-tdep.c |  12 ++---
>  gdb/linux-tdep.c       | 109 ++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
>  gdb/sparc64-tdep.c     |  13 +++--
>  gdb/target.h           |  79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 137 insertions(+), 76 deletions(-)

Thank you for adding the comments I requested.

You addressed Christina's remarks about keeping the current behaviour
when reading empty files in the case of the task maps file and also in
the case of the SPARC-specific adi/maps file. I don't know whether this
is enough to resolve her concerns. Assuming it is:

Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>

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