On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 10:05 AM Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca> wrote:

>
>
> On 2024-12-19 00:28, Flavio Cruz wrote:
> > Compilation will fail with -Werror=vla, which seems to be the default.
> >
> > Note that we don't need to allocate num_threads + 1 since the matching
> > algorithm works only on the num_threads as returned by task_threads.
>
> I don't fully understand the algorithm, but I see that `matched` only
> gets indexed using `i`, and `i` is always less than `num_threads`, so
> this seems fine to me.
>
> > ---
> >  gdb/gnu-nat.c | 6 ++----
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/gdb/gnu-nat.c b/gdb/gnu-nat.c
> > index a8a4da1c..be6fa879 100644
> > --- a/gdb/gnu-nat.c
> > +++ b/gdb/gnu-nat.c
> > @@ -1016,15 +1016,13 @@ gnu_nat_target::inf_validate_procs (struct inf
> *inf)
> >    {
> >      /* Make things normally linear.  */
> >      mach_msg_type_number_t search_start = 0;
> > -    /* Which thread in PROCS corresponds to each task thread, & the
> task.  */
> > -    struct proc *matched[num_threads + 1];
> > +    /* Which thread in PROCS corresponds to each task thread.  */
> > +    std::vector<struct proc *> matched (num_threads, nullptr);
>
> It's not necessary to specify nullptr here, because the pointers will be
> default initialized, which means nullptr for pointers.
>

Good point, I've sent a new patch.


>
> LGTM with that fixed.
>
> Approved-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
>
> Do you have push access?
>

No, I don't. Thanks for the review.


>
> Simon
>