Re: bug in gdb

Jim Blandy
1999-04-19T09:44:00Z

> Found a bug in gdb. This seems to be the correct fix. (I give the
> code unconditionally to the FSF for what ever they wish to do with
> it..., yadda, yadda, yadda). It does not seem to warrant much
> fanfare.

For a change this small, we don't need a copyright assignment. It's
not large enough to be copyrightable.

> Changelog entry:
> Fixed a bug where the typevec_size was not being reset to zero after
> the typevec itself had been reset.

The fix looks reasonable, but can you give me an identifier to
demangle that makes the bug appear?
From shebs@cygnus.com Mon Apr 19 14:08:00 1999
From: Stan Shebs <shebs@cygnus.com>
To: robertl@sco.com
Cc: gdb-patches@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: GDB 4.18 on SVR5: missed it by a hair
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 14:08:00 -0000
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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 22:55:03 -0500
From: Robert Lipe <robertl@sco.com>

The round of optimizations we performed on configure.host didn't
make it to configure.tgt. So SVR5 gets detected as SVR4.0 so it
gets /proc filesystem handling silently wrong. :-(

Argh! The change is in the trunk, but I forget to add it to the 4.18
branch also. Well, there's a third patch for 4.18.1...

Stan