This adds a new gdb_ref_ptr.h, that implements a reference-counting
smart pointer class, where the user of the class supplies a
reference-counting policy object.
This class will be used in the next patch, which changes most explicit
BFD reference counts to use this new type. Meanwhile, this patch
changes gdbpy_ref to be a specialization of this new class.
This change required adding new nullptr_t overloads some operators in
gdb_ref_ptr.h. I suspect this was needed because some Python header
redefines NULL, but I'm not certain.
2017-01-10 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* common/gdb_ref_ptr.h: New file.
* python/py-ref.h (struct gdbpy_ref_policy): New.
(gdbpy_ref): Now a typedef.
This patch introduces class gdbpy_ref, which is a sort of smart
pointer that owns a single Python reference to a PyObject. This class
acts a bit like unique_ptr, but also a bit like shared_ptr (in that
copies do what you might expect); I considered going solely with
unique_ptr but it seemed quite strange to have a unique_ptr that
actually manages a shared resource.
Subsequent patches use this new class to simplify logic in the Python
layer.
2017-01-10 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* python/py-ref.h: New file.
