From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Daniel Berlin <dan@cgsoftware.com>
To: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@cygnus.com>
Cc: "John R. Moore" <jmoore@redhat.com>, gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFA] Fix to handle enums with values above LONG_MAX
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 13:08:00 -0000
Message-id: <874rurabtg.fsf@dynamic-addr-83-177.resnet.rochester.edu>
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Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@cygnus.com> writes:

> John R. Moore writes:
>  > 
>  > Ok, this went on deaf ears... to illustrate, do the following:
>  > 
> 
> It's in my queue. Do you get this error on other platforms besides
> Linux?
It should occur everywhere.

> 
> Elena
> 
> 
>  > ------------------------- example.c ---------------------------
>  > #include <stdio.h>
>  > 
>  > enum AAA
>  > {
>  >   a = 0x1,
>  >   b = 0xFFFFFFFF,  /* If this is > LONG_MAX we core dump */
>  > };
>  > 
>  > int
>  > main ()
>  > {
>  >   unsigned int x = a;
>  >   printf ("x = 0x%x\n", x);
>  > }
>  > ----------------------- end example.c -------------------------
>  > 
>  > % gcc -g example.c -o example
>  > % gdb -nw example
>  > (gdb) print a
>  > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>  > %
>  > 
>  > John Moore
>  > 
>  > On Tue, 8 May 2001, John R. Moore wrote:
>  > 
>  > >
>  > > This fix has been tested on linux 2.4.4 kernel using gcc RedHat-2.97.
>  > > Without this fix, gdb simply core-dumps.
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > 2001-05-08  John Moore  <jmoore@redhat.com>
>  > >
>  > > 	* stabsread.c (read_huge_number): Fix to allow gdb to handle
>  > > 	enums with unsigned long values above LONG_MAX.
>  > >
>  > > Index: gdb/stabsread.c
>  > > ===================================================================
>  > > RCS file: /cvs/cvsfiles/devo/gdb/stabsread.c,v
>  > > retrieving revision 2.178
>  > > diff -p -u -r2.178 stabsread.c
>  > > --- gdb/stabsread.c	2001/03/26 19:54:39	2.178
>  > > +++ gdb/stabsread.c	2001/05/07 22:45:47
>  > > @@ -4433,10 +4433,7 @@ read_huge_number (char **pp, int end, in
>  > >        p++;
>  > >      }
>  > >
>  > > -  if (os9k_stabs)
>  > > -    upper_limit = ULONG_MAX / radix;
>  > > -  else
>  > > -    upper_limit = LONG_MAX / radix;
>  > > +  upper_limit = ULONG_MAX / radix;
>  > >
>  > >    while ((c = *p++) >= '0' && c < ('0' + radix))
>  > >      {
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >
>  > 

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