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Re: [PATCH 4/4] Document two argument form of gdb.Value constructor
On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 18:13:31 +0200
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> P.S. Does this warrant a NEWS entry?
I didn't think so at first, but after reviewing NEWS, I see that similar
sorts of things are mentioned there.
Below is an updated patch incorporating both the NEWS entry and the
other changes that you asked for.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* NEWS: Mention two argument form of gdb.Value constructor.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* python.texi (Values From Inferior): Document second form
of Value.__init__.
---
gdb/NEWS | 3 +++
gdb/doc/python.texi | 7 +++++++
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index eaef6aa384..9ad7ff4885 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -202,6 +202,9 @@ FreeBSD/riscv riscv*-*-freebsd*
gdb.SYMBOL_TYPES_DOMAIN are now deprecated. These were never
correct and did not work properly.
+ ** The gdb.Value type has a new constructor, which is used to construct a
+ gdb.Value from a Python buffer object and a gdb.Type.
+
* Configure changes
--enable-ubsan
diff --git a/gdb/doc/python.texi b/gdb/doc/python.texi
index 2860361c33..8758b626c9 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/python.texi
+++ b/gdb/doc/python.texi
@@ -735,6 +735,13 @@ its result is used.
@end table
@end defun
+@defun Value.__init__ (@var{val}, @r{[}, type @r{]})
+This second form of the @code{gdb.Value} constructor returns a
+@code{gdb.Value} of type @{type} where the value contents are taken
+from the Python buffer object specified by @var{val}. The number of
+bytes in the Python buffer object must be greater than or equal to the
+size of @var{type}.
+
@defun Value.cast (type)
Return a new instance of @code{gdb.Value} that is the result of
casting this instance to the type described by @var{type}, which must