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| author | Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com> | 2020-06-05 17:52:10 +0100 |
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| committer | Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com> | 2020-07-06 15:06:06 +0100 |
| commit | 0f767f942b027df6de60c42ed0e4a1dac7d0fd4b (patch) | |
| tree | 8622c96b1d3daffec478f33519bf2011c87e63ac /gdb/Makefile.in | |
| parent | 87dbc77459930f8f65a6d7d1e1db498da4aa74d6 (diff) | |
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gdb/python: Add gdb.Architecture.registers method
This commit adds a new method gdb.Architecture.registers that returns
an object of the new type gdb.RegisterDescriptorIterator. This
iterator returns objects of the new type gdb.RegisterDescriptor.
A RegisterDescriptor is not a way to read the value of a register,
this is already covered by Frame.read_register, a RegisterDescriptor
is simply a way to discover from Python, which registers are
available for a given architecture.
I did consider just returning a string, the name of each register,
instead of a RegisterDescriptor, however, I'm aware that it we don't
want to break the existing Python API in any way, so if I return just
a string now, but in the future we want more information about a
register then we would have to add a second API to get that
information. By going straight to a descriptor object now, it is easy
to add additional properties in the future should we wish to.
Right now the only property of a register that a user can access is
the name of the register.
In future we might want to be able to ask the register about is
register groups, or its type.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* Makefile.in (SUBDIR_PYTHON_SRCS): Add py-registers.c
* python/py-arch.c (archpy_registers): New function.
(arch_object_methods): Add 'registers' method.
* python/py-registers.c: New file.
* python/python-internal.h
(gdbpy_new_register_descriptor_iterator): Declare.
(gdbpy_initialize_registers): Declare.
* python/python.c (do_start_initialization): Call
gdbpy_initialize_registers.
* NEWS: Mention additions to the Python API.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.python/py-arch-reg-names.exp: New file.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* python.texi (Python API): Add new section the menu.
(Frames In Python): Add new @anchor.
(Architectures In Python): Document new registers method.
(Registers In Python): New section.
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diff --git a/gdb/Makefile.in b/gdb/Makefile.in index 9ae9fe2..9d48445 100644 --- a/gdb/Makefile.in +++ b/gdb/Makefile.in @@ -401,6 +401,7 @@ SUBDIR_PYTHON_SRCS = \ python/py-record.c \ python/py-record-btrace.c \ python/py-record-full.c \ + python/py-registers.c \ python/py-signalevent.c \ python/py-stopevent.c \ python/py-symbol.c \ |