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authorJim Kingdon <jkingdon@engr.sgi.com>1993-04-22 04:05:51 +0000
committerJim Kingdon <jkingdon@engr.sgi.com>1993-04-22 04:05:51 +0000
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revise comment for last change
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diff --git a/gdb/coffread.c b/gdb/coffread.c
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@@ -915,8 +915,19 @@ read_coff_symtab (symtab_offset, nsyms, objfile)
perror_with_name(objfile->name);
/* Work around a stdio bug in SunOS4.1.1 (this makes me nervous....
- it's hard to know I've really worked around it. This should be
- harmless, anyway). */
+ it's hard to know I've really worked around it. The fix should be
+ harmless, anyway). The symptom of the bug is that the first
+ fread (in read_one_sym), will (in my example) actually get data
+ from file offset 268, when the fseek was to 264 (and ftell shows
+ 264). This causes all hell to break loose. I was unable to
+ reproduce this on a short test program which operated on the same
+ file, performing (I think) the same sequence of operations.
+
+ It stopped happening when I put in this rewind().
+
+ FIXME: Find out if this has been reported to Sun, whether it has
+ been fixed in a later release, etc. */
+
rewind (stream);
/* Position to read the symbol table. */