From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31505 invoked by alias); 16 Mar 2011 19:36:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 31448 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Mar 2011 19:36:25 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ausc60pc101.us.dell.com (HELO ausc60pc101.us.dell.com) (143.166.85.206) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:34:46 +0000 X-Loopcount0: from 10.152.240.141 Subject: Re: [python] [patch] Add is_valid to several classes Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Paul Koning In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:02:00 -0000 Cc: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <944D0115-C1D1-47F5-B1CD-FE3EC69A2ADC@dell.com> References: To: X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 X-SW-Source: 2011-03/txt/msg00873.txt.bz2 On Mar 16, 2011, at 12:02 PM, Phil Muldoon wrote: >=20 > ... > A @code{gdb.Inferior} object has the following methods: >=20 > @table @code > +@defmethod Inferior is_valid > +Returns true if the @code{gdb.Inferior} object is valid, false if > +not. A @code{gdb.Inferior} object will become invalid if the inferior > +no longer exists within @value{GDBN}. All @code{gdb.Inferior} > +methods will throw an exception if it is invalid at the time the > +method is called. Should this be "all other ... methods since presumably it doesn't apply to = the is_valid() method. Same in the other places. > ... > +A @code{gdb.Block} object has the following methods: > + > +@table @code > +@defmethod Block is_valid > +Returns true if the @code{gdb.Block} object is valid, false if not. A > +block object can become invalid if the block it refers to doesn't > +exist anymore in the inferior. All @code{gdb.Block} methods will > +throw an exception if it is invalid at the time the method is called. > +This method is also made available to the Python iterator object that > +@code{gdb.Block} supports via the Python method @code{iter} function. The iter built-in function, or any iteration context, right? For example, = if b is a gdb.Block, you could say "for x in b:", presumably, and then "x.i= s_valid()" works. paul