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-rw-r--r--gdb/dwarf2read.c37
2 files changed, 38 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index c72a070..71ba083 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2002-07-16 Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
+
+ * dwarf2read.c (read_initial_length): Handle older, non-standard,
+ 64-bit DWARF2 format.
+
2002-07-16 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@gnat.com>
* proc-api.c: use HAVE_SYS_PROC_H macro to avoid including
diff --git a/gdb/dwarf2read.c b/gdb/dwarf2read.c
index 786dffc..0cf1cb6 100644
--- a/gdb/dwarf2read.c
+++ b/gdb/dwarf2read.c
@@ -3863,12 +3863,25 @@ read_address (bfd *abfd, char *buf, const struct comp_unit_head *cu_header,
return retval;
}
-/* Reads the initial length from a section. The (draft) DWARF 2.1
+/* Read the initial length from a section. The (draft) DWARF 3
specification allows the initial length to take up either 4 bytes
or 12 bytes. If the first 4 bytes are 0xffffffff, then the next 8
bytes describe the length and all offsets will be 8 bytes in length
instead of 4.
+ An older, non-standard 64-bit format is also handled by this
+ function. The older format in question stores the initial length
+ as an 8-byte quantity without an escape value. Lengths greater
+ than 2^32 aren't very common which means that the initial 4 bytes
+ is almost always zero. Since a length value of zero doesn't make
+ sense for the 32-bit format, this initial zero can be considered to
+ be an escape value which indicates the presence of the older 64-bit
+ format. As written, the code can't detect (old format) lengths
+ greater than 4GB. If it becomes necessary to handle lengths somewhat
+ larger than 4GB, we could allow other small values (such as the
+ non-sensical values of 1, 2, and 3) to also be used as escape values
+ indicating the presence of the old format.
+
The value returned via bytes_read should be used to increment
the relevant pointer after calling read_initial_length().
@@ -3879,14 +3892,18 @@ read_address (bfd *abfd, char *buf, const struct comp_unit_head *cu_header,
[ Note: read_initial_length() and read_offset() are based on the
document entitled "DWARF Debugging Information Format", revision
- 2.1, draft 4, dated July 20, 2000. This document was obtained
+ 3, draft 8, dated November 19, 2001. This document was obtained
from:
- http://reality.sgi.com/dehnert_engr/dwarf/dwarf2p1-draft4-000720.pdf
+ http://reality.sgiweb.org/davea/dwarf3-draft8-011125.pdf
This document is only a draft and is subject to change. (So beware.)
- - Kevin, Aug 4, 2000
+ Details regarding the older, non-standard 64-bit format were
+ determined empirically by examining 64-bit ELF files produced
+ by the SGI toolchain on an IRIX 6.5 machine.
+
+ - Kevin, July 16, 2002
] */
static LONGEST
@@ -3907,6 +3924,18 @@ read_initial_length (bfd *abfd, char *buf, struct comp_unit_head *cu_header,
cu_header->offset_size = 8;
}
}
+ else if (retval == 0)
+ {
+ /* Handle (non-standard) 64-bit DWARF2 formats such as that used
+ by IRIX. */
+ retval = bfd_get_64 (abfd, (bfd_byte *) buf);
+ *bytes_read = 8;
+ if (cu_header != NULL)
+ {
+ cu_header->initial_length_size = 8;
+ cu_header->offset_size = 8;
+ }
+ }
else
{
*bytes_read = 4;