[PATCH 1/2] Improve types abstraction for gdb python scripts

From: buzdelabuz2
Date: Tue May 03 2016 - 23:08:29 EST


From: Dom Cote <buzdelabuz2+git@xxxxxxxxx>

Change the read_u16 function so it accepts both 'str' and 'byte'
as type for the arguments.

When calling read_memory() from gdb API, depending on if
it was built with 2.7 or 3.X, the format used to return the
data will differ ( 'str' for 2.7, and 'byte' for 3.X ).

Add a function read_memoryview() to be able to get a
'memoryview' object back from read_memory() both with
python 2.7 and 3.X .

Tested with python 3.4 and 2.7
Tested with gdb 7.7

Signed-off-by: Dom Cote <buzdelabuz2+git@xxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py | 17 +++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py b/scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py
index 0893b326a28b..dba6c88ea7b9 100644
--- a/scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py
+++ b/scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py
@@ -87,11 +87,24 @@ def get_target_endianness():
return target_endianness


+def read_memoryview(inf, start, length):
+ return memoryview(inf.read_memory(start, length))
+
+
def read_u16(buffer):
+ value = [0, 0]
+
+ if type(buffer[0]) is str:
+ value[0] = ord(buffer[0])
+ value[1] = ord(buffer[1])
+ else:
+ value[0] = buffer[0]
+ value[1] = buffer[1]
+
if get_target_endianness() == LITTLE_ENDIAN:
- return ord(buffer[0]) + (ord(buffer[1]) << 8)
+ return value[0] + (value[1] << 8)
else:
- return ord(buffer[1]) + (ord(buffer[0]) << 8)
+ return value[1] + (value[0] << 8)


def read_u32(buffer):
--
2.8.2