From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
To: Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: RFA: handle zero-length types in value_from_register
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:43:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40166D8B.8030209@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vt2vfmx5rm8.fsf@zenia.home>
> Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org> writes:
>
>
>> > 2004-01-27 Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
>> > * findvar.c (value_from_register): If the type has no length,
>> > just
>> > return an acceptable value --- don't report an internal error.
>> >
>
>> This looks to need a test case.
>
>
> I tried to put one together, but the bug only occurs when the
> zero-length value is allocated to a register. I couldn't find any way
> to make that happen at all. So the only known instance of this bug
> depends on bad debug info.
The commentary should really reflect this important detail (also mention
the compiler that's broken for instance). Should GDB also complain
about the bogus info?
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-27 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-27 5:36 Jim Blandy
2004-01-27 14:05 ` Andrew Cagney
2004-01-27 15:38 ` Jim Blandy
2004-01-27 16:43 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2004-01-28 5:49 ` Jim Blandy
2004-02-18 3:14 Jim Blandy
2004-02-18 15:03 ` Andrew Cagney
2004-02-19 22:53 ` Jim Blandy
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