[PATCH] Add gdb.current_language function

Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
Fri May 27 17:48:51 GMT 2022


> Date: Fri, 27 May 2022 11:36:42 -0600
> From: Tom Tromey via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
> 
> This adds the gdb.current_language function, which can be used to find
> the current language without (1) ever having the value "auto" or (2)
> having to parse the output of "show language".
> ---
>  gdb/NEWS                                  |  4 ++++
>  gdb/doc/python.texi                       |  6 ++++++
>  gdb/python/python.c                       | 12 ++++++++++++
>  gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-parameter.exp | 13 +++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 35 insertions(+)

Thanks.

> +  ** New function gdb.current_language() that returns the name of the

Please remove the "()" part, it is not needed there, and can be
misinterpreted.

> +@defun gdb.current_language ()
> +Return the name of the current language as a string.  Note that,
> +unlike @code{gdb.parameter(language')}, this function will never
                             ^^
A quote missing there.

The documentation parts are okay with these nits fixed.


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