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Re: [PATCH v3 2/7] Add Python InferiorThread.inferior attribute
- From: Simon Marchi <simon dot marchi at ericsson dot com>
- To: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>, <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 13:57:06 -0500
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/7] Add Python InferiorThread.inferior attribute
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On 16-01-06 08:03 AM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> So a script can easily get at a thread's inferior and its number.
>
> gdb/ChangeLog:
> 2016-01-06 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
>
> * NEWS: Mention InferiorThread.inferior.
> * python/py-infthread.c (thpy_get_inferior): New.
> (thread_object_getset): Register "inferior".
>
> gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
> 2016-01-06 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
>
> * gdb.python/py-infthread.exp: Test InferiorThread.inferior.
>
> gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
> 2016-01-06 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
>
> * python.texi (Threads In Python): Document
> InferiorThread.inferior.
> ---
> gdb/NEWS | 5 +++++
> gdb/doc/python.texi | 5 +++++
> gdb/python/py-infthread.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
> gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-infthread.exp | 3 +++
> 4 files changed, 27 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
> index 31c870d..57a6c71 100644
> --- a/gdb/NEWS
> +++ b/gdb/NEWS
> @@ -151,6 +151,11 @@ show remote exec-event-feature-packet
> format. It outputs data in hexadecimal format with zero-padding on the
> left.
>
> +* Python Scripting
> +
> + ** gdb.InferiorThread objects have a new attribute "inferior", which
> + is the Inferior object the thread belongs to.
> +
> *** Changes in GDB 7.10
>
> * Support for process record-replay and reverse debugging on aarch64*-linux*
> diff --git a/gdb/doc/python.texi b/gdb/doc/python.texi
> index e749810..855da44 100644
> --- a/gdb/doc/python.texi
> +++ b/gdb/doc/python.texi
> @@ -3006,6 +3006,11 @@ Either the LWPID or TID may be 0, which indicates that the operating system
> does not use that identifier.
> @end defvar
>
> +@defvar InferiorThread.inferior
> +The inferior this thread belongs to. This attribute is represented as
> +a @code{gdb.Inferior} object. This attribute is not writable.
> +@end defvar
> +
> A @code{gdb.InferiorThread} object has the following methods:
>
> @defun InferiorThread.is_valid ()
> diff --git a/gdb/python/py-infthread.c b/gdb/python/py-infthread.c
> index 2637f60..5075071 100644
> --- a/gdb/python/py-infthread.c
> +++ b/gdb/python/py-infthread.c
> @@ -140,6 +140,18 @@ thpy_get_ptid (PyObject *self, void *closure)
> return gdbpy_create_ptid_object (thread_obj->thread->ptid);
> }
>
> +/* Getter for InferiorThread.inferior -> Inferior. */
> +
> +static PyObject *
> +thpy_get_inferior (PyObject *self, void *ignore)
> +{
> + thread_object *thread_obj = (thread_object *) self;
> +
> + THPY_REQUIRE_VALID (thread_obj);
> +
> + return thread_obj->inf_obj;
> +}
> +
> /* Implementation of InferiorThread.switch ().
> Makes this the GDB selected thread. */
>
> @@ -285,6 +297,8 @@ static PyGetSetDef thread_object_getset[] =
> { "num", thpy_get_num, NULL, "ID of the thread, as assigned by GDB.", NULL },
> { "ptid", thpy_get_ptid, NULL, "ID of the thread, as assigned by the OS.",
> NULL },
> + { "inferior", thpy_get_inferior, NULL,
> + "The Inferior object this thread belongs to.", NULL },
>
> { NULL }
> };
> diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-infthread.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-infthread.exp
> index 6e02d02..e07fd82 100644
> --- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-infthread.exp
> +++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-infthread.exp
> @@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ gdb_test "python print (t0)" "\\<gdb.InferiorThread object at 0x\[\[:xdigit:\]\]
> gdb_test "python print ('result = %s' % t0.num)" " = 1" "test InferiorThread.num"
> gdb_test "python print ('result = %s' % str (t0.ptid))" " = \\(\[0-9\]+, \[0-9\]+, \[0-9\]+\\)" "test InferiorThread.ptid"
>
> +gdb_py_test_silent_cmd "python i0 = t0.inferior" "test InferiorThread.inferior" 1
> +gdb_test "python print ('result = %s' % i0.num)" " = 1" "test Inferior.num"
> +
> gdb_py_test_silent_cmd "python name = gdb.selected_thread().name" \
> "get supplied name of current thread" 1
> gdb_py_test_silent_cmd "python gdb.selected_thread().name = 'hibob'" \
>
LGTM.