RFA: add python exception subclasses

Tom Tromey tromey@redhat.com
Fri Nov 12 20:47:00 GMT 2010


>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:

Tom> This patch implements this idea.  It adds some new subclasses of
Tom> RuntimeError, including one specifically for MEMORY_ERROR.  Then it
Tom> arranges for the memory error exception to be treated specially by the
Tom> pretty-printing code.

I am checking this in now.

I don't think it fully fixes the problem, but it is a good step.

I think the other part is fixing the existing printers so that their
iterators more gracefully handle a MemoryError thrown when computing a
value.

Tom



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