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Subject: Re: [RFC/Patch] Call overloaded operators to perform valid Python operations on struct/class values.
From: Siva Chandra <sivachandra@google.com>
To: Doug Evans <xdje42@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>, gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
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dje> smart_ptr = gdb.parse_and_eval ("my_smart_ptr");
dje> dereferenced_smart_ptr = gdb.parse_and_eval("*%V" % smart_ptr)

siva> Should work. May be the '%' syntax would not (I am not sure). But, we
siva> could consider other alternatives [Replace occurrences of $1, $2, etc
siva> for example].

siva> Is this an exhaustive solution or a cool fallback option when no other
siva> Pythonic way works

dje> Both?
dje> [Not sure I understand the question.]

I do think it is exhaustive. But, somehow [only a subjective feeling],
seems like a fallback option. For example, it makes simple things
(like, val1 + val2) more verbose and less readable. It is something
which one could fallback to if they want to do non-Python operations.