New upstream version 1.12.0+dfsg1

[rustc.git] / src / etc / gdb_rust_pretty_printing.py

diff --git a/src/etc/gdb_rust_pretty_printing.py b/src/etc/gdb_rust_pretty_printing.py
index ad0c9d085aabb4e0bf52614976e582c6e3de9b32..554ab66bc563d85328bd8c8303bcf035ac8fb380 100755 (executable)
--- a/src/etc/gdb_rust_pretty_printing.py
+++ b/src/etc/gdb_rust_pretty_printing.py
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ import re
 import sys
 import debugger_pretty_printers_common as rustpp
 
+# We want a version of `range` which doesn't allocate an intermediate list,
+# specifically it should use a lazy iterator. In Python 2 this was `xrange`, but
+# if we're running with Python 3 then we need to use `range` instead.
 if sys.version_info.major >= 3:
     xrange = range