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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Paul Koning <paulkoning@comcast.net>
Cc: Li Yu <raise.sail@gmail.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] gdb/python: add missing handling for anonymous members of struct and union
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:24:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3pqicld48.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ABB9CE3B-04DC-4EA9-A25A-F3590025AB5C@comcast.net> (Paul Koning's	message of "Tue, 4 Oct 2011 14:04:55 -0400")

>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Koning <paulkoning@comcast.net> writes:

Tom> I don't understand why the iterator iterates into sub-objects.  Why not
Tom> just have a flat iterator?  That is, return a field with no name whose
Tom> type is some structure, and then let the caller iterate over that type
Tom> if need be.

Paul> That's the current behavior.  Yu showed an example where he wanted
Paul> to get all the field names so he could then use those to retrieve
Paul> the fields in a gdb.Value object.

Ok, I see.  Thanks.

Paul> (Value objects don't currently have iterators; I'll propose a
Paul> patch for that shortly.)

Thanks, after reading your other patch I was meaning to see if this was
needed :)

Paul> You can certainly do this in Python, for example:

Why don't we do that, then, in some code in the gdb python library?

Paul> (This could be done more elegantly if gdb.Type could be subclassed.)

It seems reasonable to me.

Tom


  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-04 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-30 11:04 Li Yu
2011-09-30 16:15 ` Paul Koning
2011-10-01 14:01   ` Li Yu
2011-10-01 18:54     ` Paul Koning
2011-10-04 16:37 ` Tom Tromey
2011-10-04 18:05   ` Paul Koning
2011-10-04 20:24     ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2011-10-04 20:41       ` Paul Koning
2011-10-19 20:52         ` Tom Tromey
2011-10-19 20:59           ` Paul Koning
2011-10-20 18:49             ` Tom Tromey
2011-10-25 18:34               ` [RFA] Python: iterator for deep traversal of gdb.Type struct/union fields Paul Koning
2011-10-25 19:03                 ` Paul Koning
2011-10-25 20:16                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-26 17:14                     ` Paul Koning
2011-10-27 13:01                       ` Doug Evans
2011-10-27 14:52                         ` Paul_Koning
2011-10-27 19:57                           ` Tom Tromey
     [not found]                             ` <09787EF419216C41A903FD14EE5506DD030CF168FB@AUSX7MCPC103.AMER.DELL.COM>
2011-10-27 21:56                               ` Paul Koning
2011-10-27 22:14                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-28 14:55                                   ` Paul Koning

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