On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Tom Tromey<tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
This fixes PR python/13599.
The bug is that there is no way to get the line number in the source at
which a symbol was defined, even though gdb tracks this information.
This patch changes gdb.Symbol to add a new 'line' attribute.
This requires a doc review.
Built and regtested on x86-64 Fedora 15.
Tom
2012-01-31 Tom Tromey<tromey@redhat.com>
PR python/13599:
* python/py-symbol.c (sympy_line): New function.
(symbol_object_getset): Add "line".
'tis ok with me.
One comment though.
The first thing that come to mind, as a user, is "Well, if I can get
the line number from the symbol, why do I have to look elsewhere to
get the file name?"
The reason is an internal gdb implementation detail that we expose in
python. IWBN if symbol tables were more nebulous entities - we might
want the freedom to change them a bit. [Not that we necessarily can
change things now, but I think it's something we should keep in mind.]