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From: <Paul.Koning@dell.com>
To: <tim.wiederhake@intel.com>
Cc: <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>, <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: MemoryView missing from Python 2.4 and 2.6
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 16:14:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BA1B1EEF-3515-45D7-BCF2-6A7D2380D2E5@dell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86h93j7evn.fsf@gmail.com>

"Wiederhake, Tim" <tim.wiederhake@intel.com> writes:

> ...
> 3) Use the "new style buffer API" and limit GDB's support to Python >= 2.6.
> In this case we would have to limit the supported Python versions anyway so
> on the one hand there is not much reason to not throw out 2.6 as well. On the
> other hand, there still seem to be some Python 2.6 users.


That makes sense.

> 4) Return a string in "gdb.BtraceInstruction.data ()". The instruction data can
> potentially contain null bytes which can cause issues for obvious reasons.

Python has no problem at all with null bytes in strings.  

	paul


  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-24 16:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-23 16:48 Jose E. Marchesi
2017-02-23 17:06 ` Jose E. Marchesi
2017-02-23 22:59 ` Yao Qi
2017-02-24 10:37   ` Wiederhake, Tim
2017-02-24 16:06     ` Yao Qi
2017-02-24 16:14       ` Paul.Koning [this message]
2017-02-28 10:53       ` Wiederhake, Tim
2017-02-28 12:51         ` Jose E. Marchesi
2017-03-07  0:21           ` Joel Brobecker
2017-03-07 13:38             ` Wiederhake, Tim
2017-03-07 15:27               ` Joel Brobecker
2017-03-03 10:21         ` Yao Qi
2017-03-06  8:56           ` Wiederhake, Tim
2017-03-07 10:32             ` Yao Qi
2017-03-07 17:18               ` Wiederhake, Tim
2017-03-17 15:59                 ` Yao Qi
2017-03-17 16:39                   ` Jose E. Marchesi
2017-03-20  9:04             ` Yao Qi
2017-03-20 22:44               ` Yao Qi

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