Re: [PATCH 2/3] python: Add Progspace.objfiles method

[Tom Tromey <tom at tromey dot com>]

>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca> writes:

>> Finally, I have another ancient and unfinished series that adds a bunch
>> of methods to Inferior.  If you're working in this area I can send it;
>> I'd be happy to rebase it.

Simon> Sure!

I looked at this and it's in rougher shape.  See
submit/python/inferior-additions on github.  So maybe it can be mined as
a source for some things but it isn't close to landing.

It adds these methods to Inferior: attach, continue, stop, kill, and select.
It also adds a constructor so you can make a new inferior.

However nowadays I tend to think that inferior-control things, like
stop, should return some kind of promise that resolves when the request
completes.  I think the code on the branch, on the other hand, supposes
that your code will wait for an event after making a request.  My
experience from JS is that the promise-based approach is much simpler to
program and reason about, and now that Python has async+await, I think
gdb should try to follow.  (If possible, I haven't looked at how
extensions deal with this stuff.  And I used the JS terms which are
probably different in Python.)

Maybe the constructor patch could be completed pretty easily though.

Tom