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-rw-r--r--gdb/ChangeLog4
-rw-r--r--gdb/frame.c5
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 69fbac8..c8163b7 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2008-09-22 Andrew Stubbs <ams@codesourcery.com>
+
+ * frame.c (get_frame_register_bytes): Comment improvments.
+
2008-09-22 Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
* linux-nat.c (linux_nat_wait): Only use set_ignore_sigint in
diff --git a/gdb/frame.c b/gdb/frame.c
index 88d51f7..dd3e341 100644
--- a/gdb/frame.c
+++ b/gdb/frame.c
@@ -806,13 +806,14 @@ get_frame_register_bytes (struct frame_info *frame, int regnum,
regnum++;
}
- /* Detect bad debug info. */
+ /* Ensure that we will not read beyond the end of the register file.
+ This can only ever happen if the debug information is bad. */
maxsize = -offset;
for (i = regnum; i < gdbarch_num_regs (gdbarch); i++)
{
int thissize = register_size (gdbarch, i);
if (thissize == 0)
- break;
+ break; /* This register is not available on this architecture. */
maxsize += thissize;
}
if (len > maxsize)