Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] dump-guest-memory.py: fix python 2 support

["Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@gmail.com>]

Hi

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 3:59 PM, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 01/17/2018 08:18 AM, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>> On 01/17/18 12:44, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
>>> Python GDB support may use Python 2 or 3.
>>>
>>> Inferior.read_memory() may return a buffer with Python 2 or a
>>> memoryview with Python 3 (see also
>>> https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Inferiors-In-Python.html)
>>>
>>> The elf.add_vmcoreinfo_note() method expect a byte string, but Python 2
>>> buffer doesn't provide the tobyes() method. Wrap the read_memory()
>>> result to a memoryview, available in Python 2.7. (if the return object
>>> is already a memoryview, this adds a useless identity view on top)
>>
>> OOP is awesome.
>>
>>>
>>> Fixes a regression introduced with commit
>>> d23bfa91b7789534d16ede6cb7d925bfac3f3c4c ("add vmcoreinfo").
>>
>> Do you want to CC stable? Commit d23bfa91b778 is part of v2.11.0.
>
> Configure says we still support python 2.6; does this still work there?

 memoryview is not available with python 2.6.

Is the configure version check a configure-time check, or are we
suppose to support that version for gdb scripts as well?

>
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Marc-André Lureau