[committed] libstdc++: Improve comments on pretty printer code
Commit Message
Tested x86_64-linux with GDB 12.1. Pushed to trunk.
-- >8 --
libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog:
* python/libstdcxx/v6/printers.py (is_specialization_of): Fix
incorrect terminology in docstring and describe arguments.
(FilteringTypePrinter): Add default argument for new parameter,
enhance docstring.
---
libstdc++-v3/python/libstdcxx/v6/printers.py | 20 ++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
@@ -166,7 +166,12 @@ def is_member_of_namespace(typ, *namespaces):
return False
def is_specialization_of(x, template_name):
- "Test if a type is a given template instantiation."
+ """
+ Test whether a type is a specialization of the named class template.
+ The type can be specified as a string or a gdb.Type object.
+ The template should be the name of a class template as a string,
+ without any 'std' qualification.
+ """
global _versioned_namespace
if type(x) is gdb.Type:
x = x.tag
@@ -2071,19 +2076,22 @@ class FilteringTypePrinter(object):
Args:
template (str): The class template to recognize.
name (str): The typedef-name that will be used instead.
- targ1 (str): The first template argument.
- If arg1 is provided (not None), match only template specializations
- with this type as the first template argument,
- e.g. if template='basic_string<targ1'
+ targ1 (str, optional): The first template argument. Defaults to None.
Checks if a specialization of the class template 'template' is the same type
as the typedef 'name', and prints it as 'name' instead.
e.g. if an instantiation of std::basic_istream<C, T> is the same type as
std::istream then print it as std::istream.
+
+ If targ1 is provided (not None), match only template specializations with
+ this type as the first template argument, e.g. if template='basic_string'
+ and targ1='char' then only match 'basic_string<char,...>' and not
+ 'basic_string<wchar_t,...>'. This rejects non-matching specializations
+ more quickly, without needing to do GDB type lookups.
"""
- def __init__(self, template, name, targ1):
+ def __init__(self, template, name, targ1 = None):
self.template = template
self.name = name
self.targ1 = targ1