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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] aix: add support for dwarf2.
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 13:37:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m37h9g2paz.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5EE240AB-A6C1-4925-92D2-E0C0BCFCC43B@adacore.com> (Tristan	Gingold's message of "Tue, 24 May 2011 09:20:01 +0200")

>>>>> "Tristan" == Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com> writes:

Tristan> +  if (this_symtab_psymtab == NULL)
Tristan> +    return;

Tom> I don't understand this change.

Tristan> This is just a guard.  process_linenos (called by
Tristan> aix_process_linenos) will dereference this_symtab_psymtab,
Tristan> which is set by read_xcoff_symtab.  However, if the psymtab is
Tristan> built by dwarf2, the variable will never be initialized.

Tristan> Do you think the issue is somewhere else ?

It is very unclear to me whether this can be non-NULL even with DWARF.
In the DWARF case wouldn't the line information come from the DWARF line
table?  In which case it seems like xcoffread.c should have a second
struct sym_fns, with a NULL entry for this method.

Tom


  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-24 13:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-23 10:29 [RFA] Add dwarf2 support to xcoff (aix) Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 10:29 ` [PATCH 2/4] dwarf2read.c: handle alternate dwarf2 debug sections name Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 15:22   ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-23 15:32     ` Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 15:40   ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-26  7:48     ` Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 10:29 ` [PATCH 4/4] bfd.c: hancle aixcoff in bfd_get_sign_extend_vma Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 10:29 ` [PATCH 1/4] Really make dwarf2_get_section_info public Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 15:15   ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-24 12:41     ` Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 10:35 ` [PATCH 3/4] aix: add support for dwarf2 Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 15:35   ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-23 15:42     ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-23 15:47       ` Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 15:50   ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-24  7:20     ` Tristan Gingold
2011-05-24 13:37       ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2011-05-24 13:44         ` Tristan Gingold
2011-05-24 14:56           ` Tom Tromey
2011-05-24 15:11             ` Tristan Gingold
2011-06-01 15:37         ` Tristan Gingold
2011-06-02 19:11           ` Tom Tromey
2011-06-07 12:32             ` Tristan Gingold
2011-05-23 16:00 ` [RFA] Add dwarf2 support to xcoff (aix) Yao Qi
2011-05-24  7:06   ` Tristan Gingold

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