gdb/python: remove Py_TPFLAGS_BASETYPE from gdb.UnwindInfo

It is not currently possible to directly create gdb.UnwindInfo
instances, they need to be created by calling
gdb.PendingFrame.create_unwind_info so that the newly created
UnwindInfo can be linked to the pending frame.

As such there's no tp_init method defined for UnwindInfo.

A consequence of all this is that it doesn't really make sense to
allow sub-classing of gdb.UnwindInfo.  Any sub-class can't call the
parents __init__ method to correctly link up the PendingFrame
object (there is no parent __init__ method).  And any instances that
sub-classes UnwindInfo but doesn't call the parent __init__ is going
to be invalid for use in GDB.

This commit removes the Py_TPFLAGS_BASETYPE flag from the UnwindInfo
class, which prevents the class being sub-classed.  Then I've added a
test to check that this is indeed prevented.

Any functional user code will not have any issues with this change.

Reviewed-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>

2 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/gdb/python/py-unwind.c b/gdb/python/py-unwind.c
index 1e94c24..432a26a 100644
--- a/gdb/python/py-unwind.c
+++ b/gdb/python/py-unwind.c
@@ -1097,7 +1097,7 @@ PyTypeObject unwind_info_object_type =
   0,                              /* tp_getattro */
   0,                              /* tp_setattro */
   0,                              /* tp_as_buffer */
-  Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT | Py_TPFLAGS_BASETYPE,  /* tp_flags */
+  Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT,             /* tp_flags */
   "GDB UnwindInfo object",        /* tp_doc */
   0,                              /* tp_traverse */
   0,                              /* tp_clear */
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-unwind.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-unwind.exp
index 7e6ac9a..d65b844 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-unwind.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-unwind.exp
@@ -211,3 +211,20 @@ check_for_fixed_backtrace \
     "check backtrace to validate all information"
 
 gdb_test_no_output "python check_all_frame_information_matched()"
+
+# Check we can't sub-class from gdb.UnwindInfo.
+gdb_test_multiline "Sub-class gdb.UnwindInfo " \
+    "python" "" \
+    "class my_unwind_info(gdb.UnwindInfo):" "" \
+    "  def __init__(self):" "" \
+    "    pass" "" \
+    "end" \
+    [multi_line \
+	 "TypeError: type 'gdb\\.UnwindInfo' is not an acceptable base type" \
+	 "Error while executing Python code\\."]
+
+# Check we can't directly instantiate a gdb.UnwindInfo.
+gdb_test "python uw = gdb.UnwindInfo()" \
+    [multi_line \
+     "TypeError: cannot create 'gdb\\.UnwindInfo' instances" \
+     "Error while executing Python code\\."]