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authorTom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>2024-11-19 07:34:26 -0700
committerTom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>2024-12-09 14:17:23 -0700
commitc286bfe1e5c252689126cb2f45677bd36a2fdd56 (patch)
treee74594d70e93b7a457b0b0b1708fb7af968bb414
parent2134b0b4a5ff493878386183dfd8a735b5334ad7 (diff)
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Clean up 0-length handling in gdbpy_create_lazy_string_object
gdbpy_create_lazy_string_object will throw an exception if you pass it a NULL pointer without also setting length=0 -- the default, length==-1, will fail. This seems bizarre. Furthermore, it doesn't make sense to do this check for array types, as an array can have a zero length. This patch cleans up the check and makes it specific to TYPE_CODE_PTR.
-rw-r--r--gdb/python/py-lazy-string.c25
-rw-r--r--gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-lazy-string.exp2
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/python/py-lazy-string.c b/gdb/python/py-lazy-string.c
index 30a171d..1226c28 100644
--- a/gdb/python/py-lazy-string.c
+++ b/gdb/python/py-lazy-string.c
@@ -182,14 +182,6 @@ gdbpy_create_lazy_string_object (CORE_ADDR address, long length,
return NULL;
}
- if (address == 0 && length != 0)
- {
- PyErr_SetString (gdbpy_gdb_memory_error,
- _("Cannot create a lazy string with address 0x0, " \
- "and a non-zero length."));
- return NULL;
- }
-
if (!type)
{
PyErr_SetString (PyExc_RuntimeError,
@@ -216,6 +208,23 @@ gdbpy_create_lazy_string_object (CORE_ADDR address, long length,
}
break;
}
+
+ case TYPE_CODE_PTR:
+ if (address == 0)
+ {
+ if (length > 0)
+ {
+ PyErr_SetString (gdbpy_gdb_memory_error,
+ _("Cannot create a lazy string with address 0x0, " \
+ "and a non-zero length."));
+ return nullptr;
+ }
+ length = 0;
+ }
+ break;
+
+ default:
+ gdb_assert_not_reached ("invalid type in gdbpy_create_lazy_string_object");
}
str_obj = PyObject_New (lazy_string_object, &lazy_string_object_type);
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-lazy-string.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-lazy-string.exp
index 0650c67..d212e61 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-lazy-string.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-lazy-string.exp
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ gdb_test "python print(null.lazy_string(length=3).value())" \
gdb_test "python print(null.lazy_string(length=-2))" \
"ValueError.*: Invalid length.*Error occurred in Python.*" \
"bad length"
+gdb_py_test_silent_cmd "python nullstr = null.lazy_string()" \
+ "create null lazy string with default length" 1
foreach var_spec { { "ptr" "pointer" "const char \\*" -1 } \
{ "array" "array" "const char \\[6\\]" 6 } \