[5/9] Remove bare "except" from disassembler.py

Message ID 20240319-more-flake8-v1-5-893549dbed75@adacore.com
State New
Headers
Series Make gdb/python flake-clean |

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Commit Message

Tom Tromey March 19, 2024, 5:33 p.m. UTC
  flake8 complains about a bare "except" in disassembler.py.  In this
case, the code purports to guard against some kind of user error
involving data structure corruption.  I think it's better here to just
let the error occur -- py-disasm.c will show a stack trace in this
case.
---
 gdb/python/lib/gdb/disassembler.py | 21 +++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
  

Patch

diff --git a/gdb/python/lib/gdb/disassembler.py b/gdb/python/lib/gdb/disassembler.py
index ecf42688ae9..2d313ae2122 100644
--- a/gdb/python/lib/gdb/disassembler.py
+++ b/gdb/python/lib/gdb/disassembler.py
@@ -93,21 +93,14 @@  def _print_insn(info):
     disassembled."""
 
     def lookup_disassembler(arch):
-        try:
-            name = arch.name()
-            if name is None:
-                return None
-            if name in _disassemblers_dict:
-                return _disassemblers_dict[name]
-            if None in _disassemblers_dict:
-                return _disassemblers_dict[None]
-            return None
-        except:
-            # It's pretty unlikely this exception case will ever
-            # trigger, one situation would be if the user somehow
-            # corrupted the _disassemblers_dict variable such that it
-            # was no longer a dictionary.
+        name = arch.name()
+        if name is None:
             return None
+        if name in _disassemblers_dict:
+            return _disassemblers_dict[name]
+        if None in _disassemblers_dict:
+            return _disassemblers_dict[None]
+        return None
 
     disassembler = lookup_disassembler(info.architecture)
     if disassembler is None: