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| author | Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> | 2018-04-20 15:43:56 -0600 |
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| committer | Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> | 2018-04-30 11:25:31 -0600 |
| commit | 6d7bb8246b3beaf60ea9c2abe183705e876519cd (patch) | |
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| parent | 007e1530347330d4dbba387c4e35aae05bc06498 (diff) | |
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Expose type alignment on gdb.Type
This adds an "alignof" attribute to gdb.Type in the Python API.
2018-04-30 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* NEWS: Mention Type.align.
* python/py-type.c (typy_get_alignof): New function.
(type_object_getset): Add "alignof".
2018-04-30 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* python.texi (Types In Python): Document Type.align.
2018-04-30 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* gdb.python/py-type.exp: Check align attribute.
* gdb.python/py-type.c: New "aligncheck" global.
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diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog index 83d4878..2da4984 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2018-04-30 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> + + * python.texi (Types In Python): Document Type.align. + 2018-04-13 Andreas Arnez <arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com> * gdb.texinfo (Symbols): Mention the fact that "info diff --git a/gdb/doc/python.texi b/gdb/doc/python.texi index ebd48ff..05703fb 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/python.texi +++ b/gdb/doc/python.texi @@ -930,6 +930,13 @@ description of the @code{Type.fields} method for a description of the An instance of @code{Type} has the following attributes: +@defvar Type.alignof +The alignment of this type, in bytes. Type alignment comes from the +debugging information; if it was not specified, then @value{GDBN} will +use the relevant ABI to try to determine the alignment. In some +cases, even this is not possible, and zero will be returned. +@end defvar + @defvar Type.code The type code for this type. The type code will be one of the @code{TYPE_CODE_} constants defined below. |