From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] gdb/xcoffread: remove xcoff_symfile_info::{symtbl, symtbl_num_syms}
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:36:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h5svon90.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260108193507.553779-5-simon.marchi@efficios.com> (Simon Marchi's message of "Thu, 8 Jan 2026 14:33:22 -0500")
>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com> writes:
Simon> It is not necessary to save the symbol table content and number of
Simon> symbols in xcoff_symfile_info, because they are only needed for the
Simon> duration of scan_xcoff_symtab.
Simon> Move the reading of the symbol table content to scan_xcoff_symtab, and
Simon> keep everything as local variables.
Simon> + /* Seek to symbol table location. */
Simon> + if (int ret = bfd_seek (abfd, symtab_offset, SEEK_SET);
Simon> + ret < 0)
Simon> + error (_("Error reading symbols from %s: %s"),
Simon> + objfile_name (objfile), bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
'ret' doesn't really seem to be needed here.
Otherwise looks good.
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-08 20:36 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 ` [PATCH 4/8] gdb/xcoffread: remove xcoff_symfile_info::{symtbl, symtbl_num_syms} Simon Marchi
2026-01-08 20:36 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
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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