py/objexcept: Support errno attribute on OSError exceptions.

This commit adds the errno attribute to exceptions, so code can retrieve
errno codes from an OSError using exc.errno.

The implementation here simply lets `errno` (and the existing `value`)
attributes work on any exception instance (they both alias args[0]).  This
is for efficiency and to keep code size down.  The pros and cons of this
are:

Pros:
- more compatible with CPython, less difference to document and learn
- OSError().errno will correctly return None, whereas the current way of
  doing it via OSError().args[0] will raise an IndexError
- it reduces code size on most bare-metal ports (because they already have
  the errno qstr)
- for Python code that uses exc.errno the generated bytecode is 2 bytes
  smaller and more efficient to execute (compared with exc.args[0]); so
  bytecode loaded to RAM saves 2 bytes RAM for each use of this attribute,
  and bytecode that is frozen saves 2 bytes flash/ROM for each use
- it's easier/shorter to type, and saves 2 bytes of space in .py files that
  use it (for each use)

Cons:
- increases code size by 4-8 bytes on minimal ports that don't already have
  the `errno` qstr
- all exceptions now have .errno and .value attributes (a cpydiff test is
  added to address this)

See also #2407.

Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/basics/exception1.py b/tests/basics/exception1.py
index d83764cb9..a0ca8a74e 100644
--- a/tests/basics/exception1.py
+++ b/tests/basics/exception1.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+# test basic properties of exceptions
+
 print(repr(IndexError()))
 print(str(IndexError()))
 
@@ -12,3 +14,6 @@ s = StopIteration()
 print(s.value)
 s = StopIteration(1, 2, 3)
 print(s.value)
+
+print(OSError().errno)
+print(OSError(1, "msg").errno)