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From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
To: Siva Chandra <sivachandra@google.com>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC - Python Scripting] New method gdb.Symtab.blocks_iterator - docs included
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 05:44:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADPb22SujwSM3kGiCJ_6S94Z0pZc9reh8FrAJZcFbWfaRX0Kug@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGyQ6gzJMgTzvayD+2=WjiJpL75PU-Ht4FqzBANC_9s1tmwmkw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Siva Chandra <sivachandra@google.com> wrote:
> Tom> I think it would be a bit more future-proof to just let the user access
> Tom> the symtab's global and static blocks, then rely on iteration over
> Tom> symbols within a block.  This would mean also adding a way to fetch a
> Tom> block's subblocks.
>
> To begin with then, can I remove the idea of this iterator (and the
> blocks method) and add two methods global_block and static_block?

[fwiw] Even for global and static blocks, I'd like to see it written
down that we don't promise absolute consistency from release to
release.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-11  4:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-09 18:34 Siva Chandra
2012-04-09 20:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-10  1:38 ` Tom Tromey
2012-04-10  7:45   ` Siva Chandra
2012-04-10 17:16     ` Doug Evans
2012-04-10 22:21     ` Tom Tromey
2012-04-11  4:59       ` Siva Chandra
2012-04-11  5:44         ` Doug Evans [this message]
2012-04-12 15:20         ` Tom Tromey

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