From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/8] gdb/xcoffread: remove xcoff_symfile_info::{symtbl, symtbl_num_syms}
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2026 14:33:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260108193507.553779-5-simon.marchi@efficios.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260108193507.553779-1-simon.marchi@efficios.com>
It is not necessary to save the symbol table content and number of
symbols in xcoff_symfile_info, because they are only needed for the
duration of scan_xcoff_symtab.
Move the reading of the symbol table content to scan_xcoff_symtab, and
keep everything as local variables.
Change-Id: I21e2b95a0b8df2255ba46904083658a4e8cb89f0
---
gdb/xcoffread.c | 62 ++++++++++++++-----------------------------------
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gdb/xcoffread.c b/gdb/xcoffread.c
index 052bd6b78b28..0f3470cae45d 100644
--- a/gdb/xcoffread.c
+++ b/gdb/xcoffread.c
@@ -38,12 +38,6 @@
\f
struct xcoff_symfile_info
{
- /* Pointer to the a.out symbol table. */
- char *symtbl = nullptr;
-
- /* Number of symbols in symtbl. */
- int symtbl_num_syms = 0;
-
/* Offset in data section to TOC anchor. */
CORE_ADDR toc_offset = 0;
};
@@ -156,22 +150,32 @@ scan_xcoff_symtab (struct objfile *objfile)
{
CORE_ADDR toc_offset = 0; /* toc offset value in data section. */
- bfd *abfd;
asection *bfd_sect = nullptr;
int ignored;
- unsigned int nsyms;
-
- char *sraw_symbol;
+ bfd *abfd = objfile->obfd.get ();
+ file_ptr symtab_offset = obj_sym_filepos (abfd);
struct internal_syment symbol;
union internal_auxent main_aux[5];
unsigned int ssymnum;
- abfd = objfile->obfd.get ();
+ /* Seek to symbol table location. */
+ if (int ret = bfd_seek (abfd, symtab_offset, SEEK_SET);
+ ret < 0)
+ error (_("Error reading symbols from %s: %s"),
+ objfile_name (objfile), bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
- sraw_symbol = xcoff_objfile_data_key.get (objfile)->symtbl;
- nsyms = xcoff_objfile_data_key.get (objfile)->symtbl_num_syms;
+ unsigned int num_symbols = bfd_get_symcount (abfd);
+ size_t size = coff_data (abfd)->local_symesz * num_symbols;
+ char *symtbl = (char *) obstack_alloc (&objfile->objfile_obstack, size);
+
+ /* Read in symbol table. */
+ if (int ret = bfd_read (symtbl, size, abfd);
+ ret != size)
+ error (_("reading symbol table: %s"), bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
+
+ char *sraw_symbol = symtbl;
ssymnum = 0;
- while (ssymnum < nsyms)
+ while (ssymnum < num_symbols)
{
int sclass;
@@ -277,41 +281,11 @@ xcoff_get_toc_offset (struct objfile *objfile)
static void
xcoff_initial_scan (struct objfile *objfile, symfile_add_flags symfile_flags)
{
- bfd *abfd;
- int val;
- int num_symbols; /* # of symbols */
- file_ptr symtab_offset; /* symbol table and */
- struct xcoff_symfile_info *info;
- const char *name;
- unsigned int size;
-
- info = xcoff_objfile_data_key.get (objfile);
- abfd = objfile->obfd.get ();
- name = objfile_name (objfile);
-
- num_symbols = bfd_get_symcount (abfd); /* # of symbols */
- symtab_offset = obj_sym_filepos (abfd); /* symbol table file offset */
-
- /* Read the symbols. We keep them in core because we will want to
- access them randomly in read_symbol*. */
- val = bfd_seek (abfd, symtab_offset, SEEK_SET);
- if (val < 0)
- error (_("Error reading symbols from %s: %s"),
- name, bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
- size = coff_data (abfd)->local_symesz * num_symbols;
- info->symtbl = (char *) obstack_alloc (&objfile->objfile_obstack, size);
- info->symtbl_num_syms = num_symbols;
-
- val = bfd_read (info->symtbl, size, abfd);
- if (val != size)
- error (_("reading symbol table: %s"), bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
-
/* We need to do this to get the TOC information only. STABS
format is no longer supported. */
scan_xcoff_symtab (objfile);
/* DWARF2 sections. */
-
dwarf2_initialize_objfile (objfile, &dwarf2_xcoff_names);
}
\f
--
2.52.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-08 19:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-08 19:33 [PATCH 0/8] More xcoffread cleanups Simon Marchi
2026-01-08 19:33 ` [PATCH 1/8] gdb/xcoffread: remove name computation Simon Marchi
2026-01-08 20:32 ` Tom Tromey
2026-01-08 19:33 ` [PATCH 2/8] gdb/xcoffread: remove read of .debug section Simon Marchi
2026-01-08 20:32 ` Tom Tromey
2026-01-08 19:33 ` [PATCH 3/8] gdb/xcoffread: remove XCOFF_DATA macro Simon Marchi
2026-01-08 20:34 ` Tom Tromey
2026-01-08 19:33 ` Simon Marchi [this message]
2026-01-08 20:36 ` [PATCH 4/8] gdb/xcoffread: remove xcoff_symfile_info::{symtbl, symtbl_num_syms} Tom Tromey
2026-01-08 21:24 ` Simon Marchi
2026-01-08 22:17 ` Tom Tromey
2026-01-09 2:05 ` Simon Marchi
2026-01-08 19:33 ` [PATCH 5/8] gdb/xcoffread: allocate symbol table using vector in scan_xcoff_symtab Simon Marchi
2026-01-08 20:37 ` Tom Tromey
2026-01-08 19:33 ` [PATCH 6/8] gdb/xcoffread: simplify xcoff_secnum_to_sections Simon Marchi
2026-01-08 20:39 ` Tom Tromey
2026-01-08 19:33 ` [PATCH 7/8] gdb/xcoffread: replace 2 switches with if Simon Marchi
2026-01-08 20:40 ` Tom Tromey
2026-01-08 19:33 ` [PATCH 8/8] gdb/xcoffread: stylistic cleanup Simon Marchi
2026-01-08 20:41 ` Tom Tromey
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