Re: [python] update has_more generation

[Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon at redhat dot com>]

On 09/07/2009 05:58 PM, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > Volodya>  File "/home/ghost/Build/python/libstdcxx/v6/printers.py", line 469, in to_string
> > Volodya>  return self.val['_M_dataplus']['_M_p'].string (encoding, length = len)
> > Volodya>  RuntimeError: Cannot access memory at address 0x1fa
> >
> > I also get these tracebacks.
> >
> > We're probably going to need smarter error handling somewhere.
> >      
> Volodya> Traceback (most recent call last):
> Beside, that 'length = len' is also risky -- it means that if the string is not initialized,
> we might end up reading a lot of memory.
>
>    
I'm not sure what can be done here, this is something that came up when 
I was encoding the length parameter to strings. How does one know when a 
string is initialized, or when it is pointing to just an arbitrary point 
in memory? Given that an explicit length ignores any embedded nulls?

If it is possible to discern this, could easily code up a method to gate 
this behaviour.

Regards

Phil