2001-11-01 Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>

	* symtab.c (operator_chars): Allow '*' and '[' to be quoted in
	operator names, to avoid regexp expansion.
	(search_symbols): Alloca buffer is too small, may get clobbered.

2 files changed, 101 insertions, 46 deletions

diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index d07aab8..723ce0c 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -67,6 +67,12 @@
 
         * MAINTAINERS: Update my entry.
 
+2001-11-01  Michael Snyder  <msnyder@redhat.com>
+
+	* symtab.c (operator_chars): Allow '*' and '[' to be quoted in
+	operator names, to avoid regexp expansion.
+	(search_symbols): Alloca buffer is too small, may get clobbered.
+
 2001-11-01  Fred Fish  <fnf@redhat.com>
 
 	* coff-solib.c (coff_solib_add): Add new readsyms arg.
diff --git a/gdb/symtab.c b/gdb/symtab.c
index c0fa1e7..cd1798d 100644
--- a/gdb/symtab.c
+++ b/gdb/symtab.c
@@ -2067,53 +2067,102 @@ operator_chars (char *p, char **end)
       return p;
     }
 
-  switch (*p)
-    {
-    case '!':
-    case '=':
-    case '*':
-    case '/':
-    case '%':
-    case '^':
-      if (p[1] == '=')
-	*end = p + 2;
-      else
+  while (*p)
+    switch (*p)
+      {
+      case '\\':			/* regexp quoting */
+	if (p[1] == '*')
+	  {
+	    if (p[2] == '=')	/* 'operator\*=' */
+	      *end = p + 3;
+	    else			/* 'operator\*'  */
+	      *end = p + 2;
+	    return p;
+	  }
+	else if (p[1] == '[')
+	  {
+	    if (p[2] == ']')
+	      error ("mismatched quoting on brackets, try 'operator\\[\\]'");
+	    else if (p[2] == '\\' && p[3] == ']')
+	      {
+		*end = p + 4;	/* 'operator\[\]' */
+		return p;
+	      }
+	    else
+	      error ("nothing is allowed between '[' and ']'");
+	  }
+	else 
+	  {
+	    /* Gratuitous qoute: skip it and move on. */
+	    p++;
+	    continue;
+	  }
+	break;
+      case '!':
+      case '=':
+      case '*':
+      case '/':
+      case '%':
+      case '^':
+	if (p[1] == '=')
+	  *end = p + 2;
+	else
+	  *end = p + 1;
+	return p;
+      case '<':
+      case '>':
+      case '+':
+      case '-':
+      case '&':
+      case '|':
+	if (p[0] == '-' && p[1] == '>')
+	  {
+	    /* Struct pointer member operator 'operator->'. */
+	    if (p[2] == '*')
+	      {
+		*end = p + 3;	/* 'operator->*' */
+		return p;
+	      }
+	    else if (p[2] == '\\')
+	      {
+		*end = p + 4;	/* Hopefully 'operator->\*' */
+		return p;
+	      }
+	    else
+	      {
+		*end = p + 2;	/* 'operator->' */
+		return p;
+	      }
+	  }
+	if (p[1] == '=' || p[1] == p[0])
+	  *end = p + 2;
+	else
+	  *end = p + 1;
+	return p;
+      case '~':
+      case ',':
 	*end = p + 1;
-      return p;
-    case '<':
-    case '>':
-    case '+':
-    case '-':
-    case '&':
-    case '|':
-      if (p[1] == '=' || p[1] == p[0])
+	return p;
+      case '(':
+	if (p[1] != ')')
+	  error ("`operator ()' must be specified without whitespace in `()'");
 	*end = p + 2;
-      else
-	*end = p + 1;
-      return p;
-    case '~':
-    case ',':
-      *end = p + 1;
-      return p;
-    case '(':
-      if (p[1] != ')')
-	error ("`operator ()' must be specified without whitespace in `()'");
-      *end = p + 2;
-      return p;
-    case '?':
-      if (p[1] != ':')
-	error ("`operator ?:' must be specified without whitespace in `?:'");
-      *end = p + 2;
-      return p;
-    case '[':
-      if (p[1] != ']')
-	error ("`operator []' must be specified without whitespace in `[]'");
-      *end = p + 2;
-      return p;
-    default:
-      error ("`operator %s' not supported", p);
-      break;
-    }
+	return p;
+      case '?':
+	if (p[1] != ':')
+	  error ("`operator ?:' must be specified without whitespace in `?:'");
+	*end = p + 2;
+	return p;
+      case '[':
+	if (p[1] != ']')
+	  error ("`operator []' must be specified without whitespace in `[]'");
+	*end = p + 2;
+	return p;
+      default:
+	error ("`operator %s' not supported", p);
+	break;
+      }
+
   *end = "";
   return *end;
 }
@@ -2365,7 +2414,7 @@ search_symbols (char *regexp, namespace_enum kind, int nfiles, char *files[],
 	  /* If wrong number of spaces, fix it. */
 	  if (fix >= 0)
 	    {
-	      char *tmp = (char *) alloca (opend - opname + 10);
+	      char *tmp = (char *) alloca (strlen (regexp) + fix);
 	      sprintf (tmp, "operator%.*s%s", fix, " ", opname);
 	      regexp = tmp;
 	    }