Dave Malcolm <[email protected]> added the comment:
I'm attaching a new version of the patch (v5), against svn trunk (r79517)
I've been testing these hooks by using "gdb attach" to attach to real-world
python programs.
When doing this with earlier versions of the hooks, gdb would pause for many
seconds when printing some values (e.g. during a backtrace). The issue was
that "proxyval" scrapes the entire graph of python objects from the inferior
process into gdb, and then prints it. As well as being slow, this can be many
pages of textual output.
To counter this, I've rewritten the pretty-printers to use a stream-based
approach. The various PyObjectPtr subclasses have a "write_repr" method that
writes the represenation to a file-like object whilst they recurse. I supply a
file-like object "TruncatedStringIO", which raises an exception after a limit
is reached: by default 1K of string data. (some simple subclasses simply reuse
repr(self.proxyval()) for this, but objects that can follow cross-references
have their own write_repr implementation).
I've also rewritten frame handling: I eliminated the FrameInfo class, moving
its functionality to the PyFrameObjectPtr class, and introduced a new "Frame"
class to wrap gdb.Frame. This allowed a big simplification of the extension
commands, and fixed various bugs (involving inlining and optimization)
Within the py-up/py-down and py-bt commands, the code now prefixes Python frame
printing with C-level frame indexes, to better tie together the C-level and
Python-level views of the stack.
I've added a couple of new commands:
* "py-print" - takes a string argument. It attempts to look up the Python
variable with that name, and print its value (it searches first in the locals
of the current frame, then globals, then builtins).
* "py-locals" - prints Python local variables; an analog of gdb's "info
locals"
Other changes since v4:
* Add a ">" marker to the output of "py-list", indicating the current location
* Add pretty-printer for PyCFunctionObject ("built-in function" and "built-in
method")
* Add selftests for the above
* Make frame printing fetch information on locals on demand, rather than
within FrameInfo's __init__ method (the latter is completely gone)
* Introduce PyObjectPtr.pyop_field method, simplifying the code
* Change the set/frozenset selftests to remove a reliance on ordering within
the representation of the members
* Try to be more robust for the case where PyEval_EvalFrameEx's "f" parameter
is optimized out (see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=556975 )
* Remove the FIXME in PyLongObjectPtr: I've tested the code on builds with
both sizeof(digit) == 2 and == 4
* More selftests for unicode printing
All tests pass on my box (Fedora 12 x86_64 with gdb-7.0.1-33.fc12.x86_64): "Ran
45 tests in 17.439s"
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Added file:
http://bugs.python.org/file16715/add-gdb7-python-hooks-to-trunk-v5.patch
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