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From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Handle base type without DW_AT_byte_size
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 10:09:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250429100900.23ff8e0e@f41-zbm-amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250425141813.826220-1-tromey@adacore.com>

On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 08:18:13 -0600
Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com> wrote:

> DWARF says that a base type can have DW_AT_bit_size, without
> DW_AT_byte_size.  However, gdb does not correctly handle this; in
> fact, it crashes, as pointed out in this LLVM merge request:
> 
>     https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/137123
> 
> This patch reworks the base type size logic a bit to handle this
> situation.
> ---
>  gdb/dwarf2/read.c                    | 67
> ++++++++++++++++------------ gdb/testsuite/gdb.dwarf2/intbits.c   |
> 3 ++ gdb/testsuite/gdb.dwarf2/intbits.exp | 19 +++++++-
>  3 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

I've verified that the new tests fail with an unpatched GDB and
pass with your patch.

Also, the patch itself LGTM.

Tested-by: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
Approved-by: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>


      reply	other threads:[~2025-04-29 17:10 UTC|newest]

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2025-04-25 14:18 Tom Tromey
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