2004-01-27 Andrew Cagney * minsyms.c (lookup_minimal_symbol_by_pc): Use find_pc_section instead of find_pc_mapped_section. (lookup_minimal_symbol_by_pc_section): If the SECTION is NULL, do not default to the section containing PC. Fix PR gdb/1519. Index: minsyms.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/minsyms.c,v retrieving revision 1.39 diff -u -r1.39 minsyms.c --- minsyms.c 11 Nov 2003 20:04:52 -0000 1.39 +++ minsyms.c 27 Jan 2004 21:24:26 -0000 @@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ /* Search through the minimal symbol table for each objfile and find the symbol whose address is the largest address that is still less - than or equal to PC, and matches SECTION (if non-null). Returns a + than or equal to PC, and matches SECTION (if non-NULL). Returns a pointer to the minimal symbol if such a symbol is found, or NULL if PC is not in a suitable range. Note that we need to look through ALL the minimal symbol tables before deciding on the symbol that @@ -374,20 +374,23 @@ struct minimal_symbol *best_symbol = NULL; struct obj_section *pc_section; - /* pc has to be in a known section. This ensures that anything beyond - the end of the last segment doesn't appear to be part of the last - function in the last segment. */ + /* PC has to be in a known section. This ensures that anything + beyond the end of the last segment doesn't appear to be part of + the last function in the last segment. */ pc_section = find_pc_section (pc); if (pc_section == NULL) return NULL; - /* If no section was specified, then just make sure that the PC is in - the same section as the minimal symbol we find. */ - if (section == NULL) - section = pc_section->the_bfd_section; - - /* FIXME drow/2003-07-19: Should we also check that PC is in SECTION - if we were passed a non-NULL SECTION argument? */ + /* NOTE: cagney/2004-01-27: Removed code (added 2003-07-19) that was + trying to force the PC into a valid section as returned by + find_pc_section. It broke IRIX 6.5 mdebug which relies on this + code returning an absolute symbol - the problem was that + find_pc_section wasn't returning an absolute section and hence + the code below would skip over absolute symbols. Since the + original problem was with finding a frame's function, and that + uses [indirectly] lookup_minimal_symbol_by_pc, the original + problem has been fixed by having that function use + find_pc_section. */ for (objfile = object_files; objfile != NULL; @@ -497,7 +500,13 @@ struct minimal_symbol * lookup_minimal_symbol_by_pc (CORE_ADDR pc) { - return lookup_minimal_symbol_by_pc_section (pc, find_pc_mapped_section (pc)); + /* NOTE: cagney/2004-01-27: This was using find_pc_mapped_section to + force the section but that (well unless you're doing overlay + debugging) always returns NULL making the call somewhat useless. */ + struct obj_section *section = find_pc_section (pc); + if (section == NULL) + return NULL; + return lookup_minimal_symbol_by_pc_section (pc, section->the_bfd_section); }