[Bug python/14363] Pretty-Printing of cyclic references producesinfinite recursion

["oliver.buchtala at googlemail dot com"<sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14363

--- Comment #3 from Oliver Buchtala <oliver.buchtala at googlemail dot com> 2012-08-01 18:22:15 UTC ---
I have had a glance at the python api source and want to add some proposals:

py-prettyprint.c:
print_children (PyObject *printer, const char *hint,
        struct ui_file *stream, int recurse,
        const struct value_print_options *options,
        const struct language_defn *language,
        int is_py_none)

I. Let the pretty-printer know about the current recursion level

this would give the pretty-printer more control about how deep it provides
children.

II. Handle Visited information

A value has a location (struct) that contains the address which could be
collected in a set of visited addresses.
The set would be initialized on recurse==0.

A visited flag could be set in the gdb.Value, leaving handling this to the
pretty-printer, or recursion stopped based on this information, and maybe based
on gdb pretty-print options:
...
   common_val_print (value, stream, recurse + 1, options, language);
...

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