Quoting Leonard Crestez (2019-04-23 04:12:49) > On 4/22/2019 11:18 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote: > > Do you need to do the .string() for comparison? Or does it work just as > > well to compare a gdb.Value object to a python string? It would be nice > > if the gdb.Value object could figure out that they're not both gdb.Value > > objects so it can do a string comparison itself. > > The gdb manual is not clear on how comparisons work on gdb.Value types. > Converting to a python string and comparing in python work well, using > == on string gdb.Values results in this: > > gdb.error: evaluation of this expression requires the program to > have a function "malloc" > > My guess is gdb attempts to convert both arguments to gdb.Value and do > the comparison via a call on the target? This is very undesirable here. > > I get the same error if "name" is a gdb.Value instead of being converted > to a string in invoke(). >
Ok. Thanks for checking. It might be worth filing a bug with gdb to see if this can be improved in the future.
