Re: [PATCH v4] PR 18303, Tolerate malformed input for lookup_symbol-called functions.

[Don Breazeal <donb@codesourcery.com>]

On 3/15/2016 1:30 PM, Doug Evans wrote:
> Don Breazeal writes:
>   > Apologies -- the previous version of this patch was missing one file,
>   > added here.  Sorry for the noise.
>   > --Don
>   >
>   > ---V3 Comment---
>   > This patch differs from v2 in that the new test  
> gdb.linespec/ls-errs-cp.exp
>   > is gone, and instead (per Pedro's suggestion) gdb.linespec/ls-errs.exp  
> has
>   > been modified to test both C & C++, and to incorporate the small amount  
> of
>   > extra testing from ls-errs-cp.exp.
>   >
>   > It also includes, unchanged from the previous version of the patch:
>   >
>   >  * an updated version of the alternate fix that Keith proposed for my
>   >    patch that addressed PR breakpoints/18303.  Doug has approved (in
>   >    concept, at least) the code portion of the patch.
>   >
>   >  * a couple of other new tests of colons in linespecs.
>   >
>   > Thanks,
>   > --Don
>   >
>   > -----------
>   > lookup_symbol is often called with user input.  Consequently, any
>   > function called from lookup_symbol{,_in_language} should attempt to
>   > deal with malformed input gracefully.  After all, malformed user
>   > input is not a programming/API error.
>   >
>   > This patch does not attempt to find/correct all instances of this.  It
>   > only fixes locations in the code that trigger test suite failures.
>   >
>   > This patch fixes PR breakpoints/18303, "Assertion: -breakpoint-insert
>   > with windows paths of file in non-current directory".
>   >
>   > The patch includes three new tests related to this.  One is just
>   > gdb.linespec/ls-errs.exp copied and converted to use C++ instead of C,  
> and
>   > to add a case using a file name containing a Windows-style logical drive
>   > specifier.  The others include an MI test to provide a regression test  
> for
>   > the specific case reported in PR 18303, and a C++ test for proper error
>   > handling of access to a program variable when using a file scope  
> specifier
>   > that refers to a non-existent file.
>   >
>   > Tested on x86_64 native Linux.
>   >
>   > gdb/ChangeLog
>   > 2016-01-28  Keith Seitz  <keiths@redhat.com>
>   >
>   > 	PR breakpoints/18303
>   > 	* cp-namespace.c (cp_lookup_bare_symbol): Change assertion to
>   > 	look for "::" instead of simply ":".
>   > 	(cp_search_static_and_baseclasses): Return null_block_symbol for
>   > 	malformed input.
>   > 	Remove assertions.
>   > 	* cp-support.c (cp_find_first_component_aux): Do not return
>   > 	a prefix length for ':' unless the next character is also ':'.
>   >
>   > gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
>   > 2016-01-28  Don Breazeal  <donb@codesourcery.com>
>   >
>   > 	* gdb.cp/scope-err.cc: New test program.
>   > 	* gdb.cp/scope-err.exp: New test script.
>   > 	* gdb.linespec/ls-errs.c (myfunction): Expanded to have multiple
>   > 	lines and "set breakpoint here" comment.
>   > 	* gdb.linespec/ls-errs.exp: Added C++ testing and new test case.
>   > 	* gdb.mi/mi-linespec-err-cp.cc: New test program.
>   > 	* gdb.mi/mi-linespec-err-cp.exp: New test script.
>   >...
> 
> Hi.
> LGTM
> 
This is now pushed.  Keith FYI I made some whitespace/format changes per
your comments.
Thanks,
--Don