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authorDoug Evans <dje@google.com>2012-06-05 01:17:55 +0000
committerDoug Evans <dje@google.com>2012-06-05 01:17:55 +0000
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* buildsym.c (make_blockvector): Add comment.
-rw-r--r--gdb/ChangeLog4
-rw-r--r--gdb/buildsym.c7
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 5317e17..ac6de66 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2012-06-04 Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
+
+ * buildsym.c (make_blockvector): Add comment.
+
2012-06-04 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* arch-utils.c (default_gdb_signal_from_target): Delete.
diff --git a/gdb/buildsym.c b/gdb/buildsym.c
index 20fabb7..f1fb4be 100644
--- a/gdb/buildsym.c
+++ b/gdb/buildsym.c
@@ -496,10 +496,13 @@ make_blockvector (struct objfile *objfile)
= addrmap_create_fixed (pending_addrmap, &objfile->objfile_obstack);
else
BLOCKVECTOR_MAP (blockvector) = 0;
-
+
/* Some compilers output blocks in the wrong order, but we depend on
their being in the right order so we can binary search. Check the
- order and moan about it. */
+ order and moan about it.
+ Note: Remember that the first two blocks are the global and static
+ blocks. We could special case that fact and begin checking at block 2.
+ To avoid making that assumption we do not. */
if (BLOCKVECTOR_NBLOCKS (blockvector) > 1)
{
for (i = 1; i < BLOCKVECTOR_NBLOCKS (blockvector); i++)