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From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
To: jan.kratochvil@redhat.com
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [rfc patch] nomem: internal_error -> error
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:56:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201006011755.o51HtepM012252@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100601164808.GA22487@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> (message	from Jan Kratochvil on Tue, 1 Jun 2010 18:48:08 +0200)

> Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 18:48:08 +0200
> From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> unfortunately I see this problem reproducible only with the
> archer-jankratochvil-vla branch (VLA = Variable Length Arrays - char[var]).
> OTOH this branch I hopefully submit in some form for FSF GDB later.
> 
> In this case (a general problem but tested for example on Fedora 13 i686):
> 
> int
> main (int argc, char **argv)
> {
>   char a[argc];
>   return a[0];
> }
> 
> (gdb) start
> (gdb) print a
> ../../gdb/utils.c:1251: internal-error: virtual memory exhausted: can't allocate 4294951689 bytes.
> 
> I find simple error as a perfectly reasonable there.

I disagree; this internal-error really is a bug in GDB.  We should
never try to allocate that much memory.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-01 17:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-01 16:48 Jan Kratochvil
2010-06-01 17:56 ` Mark Kettenis [this message]
2010-06-01 17:58   ` Jan Kratochvil

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