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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: "Pierre Muller" <pierre.muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr>
Cc: <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [RFA] Avoid calling stat with empty name in relocate_gdb_directory
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:03:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sj7ks7g6.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <29503.7594777115$1354726985@news.gmane.org> (Pierre Muller's	message of "Wed, 5 Dec 2012 18:01:59 +0100")

>>>>> "Pierre" == Pierre Muller <pierre.muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr> writes:

Pierre>   With the troubles that I have with my patch,
Pierre> I started looking into a memory debugger...
Pierre>   I finally started to use drmemory
Pierre> for mingw compiled GDB executables.

Pierre>   I don't know if stat is supposed to handle (*dir == '\0'),
Pierre> but I thought that it should anyhow succeed in that case,
Pierre> so the patch below simply don't call stat if name is empty.

At least here I get an error.

Pierre>   Tell me if you rather think that this is a msvcrt bug that
Pierre> should not be fixed in GDB...

I don't mind working around it, but I wonder how we end up there with an
empty 'dir' in the first place.  Perhaps that is a bug instead.

Tom


       reply	other threads:[~2012-12-05 18:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <29503.7594777115$1354726985@news.gmane.org>
2012-12-05 18:03 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2012-12-05 23:45   ` Pierre Muller
     [not found]   ` <434.327257289802$1354751122@news.gmane.org>
2012-12-06 18:33     ` Tom Tromey
2012-12-14  8:17       ` Pierre Muller
     [not found]       ` <26262.2907328934$1355473042@news.gmane.org>
2013-01-03 20:59         ` Tom Tromey
2013-01-03 22:19           ` Pierre Muller
2012-12-05 17:02 Pierre Muller

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