From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: [RFA] stabsread.c (define_symbol): Guard against bad stabstring input.
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:44:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201103151425.01026.pedro@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D7A90D8.8060903@vmware.com>
On Friday 11 March 2011 21:15:04, Michael Snyder wrote:
> Pedro Alves wrote:
> > On Saturday 05 March 2011 00:42:59, Pedro Alves wrote:
> >> On Saturday 05 March 2011 00:37:25, Michael Snyder wrote:
> >>> I think I heard someone say that gdb should be proof against all inputs?
> >> Yes, but bad inputs aren't gdb bugs, so those should be errors
> >> or warnings, not internal_errors.
> >
> > for completeness: ... or "complaints", of which the symbol
> > readers are the biggest users, exactly to complain about
> > bad input debug info. complaints have the nice property
> > that they warn once, and go quiet the next time the problem
> > appears --- when we see a malformed debug info problem, we
> > tend to see a lot of instances of the same in the same run,
> > so that feature prevents terminal flooding with a bunch of
> > duplicated warnings.
> >
>
> Thanks. How about this?
Sure, thanks.
--
Pedro Alves
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-15 14:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-05 0:37 Michael Snyder
2011-03-05 0:43 ` Pedro Alves
2011-03-05 0:49 ` Pedro Alves
2011-03-11 21:35 ` Michael Snyder
2011-03-15 14:44 ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2011-03-15 18:07 ` Michael Snyder
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