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2022-03-23gdb/python: remove Python 2/3 compatibility macrosSimon Marchi1-5/+5
New in this version: - Rebase on master, fix a few more issues that appeared. python-internal.h contains a number of macros that helped make the code work with both Python 2 and 3. Remove them and adjust the code to use the Python 3 functions. Change-Id: I99a3d80067fb2d65de4f69f6473ba6ffd16efb2d
2022-01-26Change how Python architecture and language are handledTom Tromey1-1/+1
Currently, gdb's Python layer captures the current architecture and language when "entering" Python code. This has some undesirable effects, and so this series changes how this is handled. First, there is code like this: gdbpy_enter enter_py (python_gdbarch, python_language); This is incorrect, because both of these are NULL when not otherwise assigned. This can cause crashes in some cases -- I've added one to the test suite. (Note that this crasher is just an example, other ones along the same lines are possible.) Second, when the language is captured in this way, it means that Python code cannot affect the current language for its own purposes. It's reasonable to want to write code like this: gdb.execute('set language mumble') ... stuff using the current language gdb.execute('set language previous-value') However, this won't actually work, because the language is captured on entry. I've added a test to show this as well. This patch changes gdb to try to avoid capturing the current values. The Python concept of the current gdbarch is only set in those few cases where a non-default value is computed or needed; and the language is not captured at all -- instead, in the cases where it's required, the current language is temporarily changed.
2022-01-01Automatic Copyright Year update after running gdb/copyright.pyJoel Brobecker1-1/+1
This commit brings all the changes made by running gdb/copyright.py as per GDB's Start of New Year Procedure. For the avoidance of doubt, all changes in this commits were performed by the script.
2021-11-30gdb/python: add gdb.RemoteTargetConnection.send_packetAndrew Burgess1-3/+207
This commits adds a new sub-class of gdb.TargetConnection, gdb.RemoteTargetConnection. This sub-class is created for all 'remote' and 'extended-remote' targets. This new sub-class has one additional method over its base class, 'send_packet'. This new method is equivalent to the 'maint packet' CLI command, it allows a custom packet to be sent to a remote target. The outgoing packet can either be a bytes object, or a Unicode string, so long as the Unicode string contains only ASCII characters. The result of calling RemoteTargetConnection.send_packet is a bytes object containing the reply that came from the remote.
2021-11-30gdb/python: introduce gdb.TargetConnection object typeAndrew Burgess1-0/+366
This commit adds a new object type gdb.TargetConnection. This new type represents a connection within GDB (a connection as displayed by 'info connections'). There's three ways to find a gdb.TargetConnection, there's a new 'gdb.connections()' function, which returns a list of all currently active connections. Or you can read the new 'connection' property on the gdb.Inferior object type, this contains the connection for that inferior (or None if the inferior has no connection, for example, it is exited). Finally, there's a new gdb.events.connection_removed event registry, this emits a new gdb.ConnectionEvent whenever a connection is removed from GDB (this can happen when all inferiors using a connection exit, though this is not always the case, depending on the connection type). The gdb.ConnectionEvent has a 'connection' property, which is the gdb.TargetConnection being removed from GDB. The gdb.TargetConnection has an 'is_valid()' method. A connection object becomes invalid when the underlying connection is removed from GDB (as discussed above, this might be when all inferiors using a connection exit, or it might be when the user explicitly replaces a connection in GDB by issuing another 'target' command). The gdb.TargetConnection has the following read-only properties: 'num': The number for this connection, 'type': e.g. 'native', 'remote', 'sim', etc 'description': The longer description as seen in the 'info connections' command output. 'details': A string or None. Extra details for the connection, for example, a remote connection's details might be 'hostname:port'.