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authorJim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>2003-09-23 16:25:13 +0000
committerJim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>2003-09-23 16:25:13 +0000
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* dwarf2read.c (read_array_type): When building the type for an
array of unspecified length, make sure to choose the upper bound so that the array's total length comes out to be zero --- that's how we represent such arrays.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/dwarf2read.c')
-rw-r--r--gdb/dwarf2read.c10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/dwarf2read.c b/gdb/dwarf2read.c
index 468151f..bb614e5 100644
--- a/gdb/dwarf2read.c
+++ b/gdb/dwarf2read.c
@@ -3237,8 +3237,14 @@ read_array_type (struct die_info *die, struct objfile *objfile,
with a DW_FORM_block1 attribute.
FIXME: GDB does not yet know how to handle dynamic
arrays properly, treat them as arrays with unspecified
- length for now. */
- high = -1;
+ length for now.
+
+ FIXME: jimb/2003-09-22: GDB does not really know
+ how to handle arrays of unspecified length
+ either; we just represent them as zero-length
+ arrays. Choose an appropriate upper bound given
+ the lower bound we've computed above. */
+ high = low - 1;
}
else
{