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From: Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: RFA: handle zero-length types in value_from_register
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:38:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vt2vfmx5rm8.fsf@zenia.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40166B2D.9080506@gnu.org>

Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org> writes:

> > 2004-01-27  Jim Blandy  <jimb@redhat.com>
> > 	* findvar.c (value_from_register): If the type has no length,
> > just
> > 	return an acceptable value --- don't report an internal error.
> >
> This looks to need a test case.

I tried to put one together, but the bug only occurs when the
zero-length value is allocated to a register.  I couldn't find any way
to make that happen at all.  So the only known instance of this bug
depends on bad debug info.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-27 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-27  5:36 Jim Blandy
2004-01-27 14:05 ` Andrew Cagney
2004-01-27 15:38   ` Jim Blandy [this message]
2004-01-27 16:43     ` Andrew Cagney
2004-01-28  5:49       ` Jim Blandy
2004-02-18  3:14 Jim Blandy
2004-02-18 15:03 ` Andrew Cagney
2004-02-19 22:53   ` Jim Blandy

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