From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jim Blandy <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com>
To: Fernando Nasser <fnasser@cygnus.com>
Cc: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Simple but crucial bug fix to gdb
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 20:18:00 -0000
Message-id: <npvgmimcih.fsf@zwingli.cygnus.com>
References: <3.0.5.32.20010530142745.01470ec0@pophost.pdxuxbre.lmc.com> <20010530173650.A21397@redhat.com> <3B15711D.BEA4B77E@cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-05/msg00497.html

Fernando Nasser <fnasser@cygnus.com> writes:
> I cannot approve the patch because I am not the maintainer of the
> stabs reader, but (for the reasons you've explained above) this
> seems to fall clearly into the obvious fix rule.

This is *not* an obvious fix.

The stabs reader has seen a symbol definition, before it has any idea
what compilation unit that symbol belongs to.  Are you *sure* it's
okay to just ignore that symbol definition?  Won't the psymtab's start
and end addresses get set wrong?