In previous commits I've added Object.__dict__ support to gdb.Inferior
and gdb.InferiorThread, this is similar to the existing support for
gdb.Objfile and gdb.Progspace.
This commit extends the documentation to offer the user some guidance
on selecting good names for their custom attributes so they
can (hopefully) avoid conflicting with any future attributes that GDB
might add.
The rules I've proposed are:
1. Don't start user attributes with a lower case letter, all the
current GDB attributes start with a lower case letter, and I suspect
all future attributes would also start with a lower case letter, and
2. Don't start user attributes with a double underscore, this risks
conflicting with Python built in attributes (e.g. __dict__) - though
clearly the user would need to start and end with a double
underscore, but it seemed easier just to say no double underscores.
I'm doing this as a separate commit as I've updated the docs for the
existing gdb.Objfile and gdb.Progspace so they all reference a single
paragraph on selecting attribute names.
Reviewed-By: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
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