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Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/dbxread.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/dbxread.c | 19 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/dbxread.c b/gdb/dbxread.c index 9b2b73b..430e3f5 100644 --- a/gdb/dbxread.c +++ b/gdb/dbxread.c @@ -203,6 +203,9 @@ struct complaint repeated_header_complaint = struct complaint unclaimed_bincl_complaint = {"N_BINCL %s not in entries for any file, at symtab pos %d", 0, 0}; + +struct complaint discarding_local_symbols_complaint = +{"misplaced N_LBRAC entry; discarding local symbols which have no enclosing block", 0, 0}; /* find_text_range --- find start and end of loadable code sections @@ -2881,7 +2884,21 @@ process_one_symbol (int type, int desc, CORE_ADDR valu, char *name, /* Can only use new->locals as local symbols here if we're in gcc or on a machine that puts them before the lbrack. */ if (!VARIABLES_INSIDE_BLOCK (desc, processing_gcc_compilation)) - local_symbols = new->locals; + { + if (local_symbols != NULL) + { + /* GCC development snapshots from March to December of + 2000 would output N_LSYM entries after N_LBRAC + entries. As a consequence, these symbols are simply + discarded. Complain if this is the case. Note that + there are some compilers which legitimately put local + symbols within an LBRAC/RBRAC block; this complaint + might also help sort out problems in which + VARIABLES_INSIDE_BLOCK is incorrectly defined. */ + complain (&discarding_local_symbols_complaint); + } + local_symbols = new->locals; + } if (context_stack_depth > !VARIABLES_INSIDE_BLOCK (desc, processing_gcc_compilation)) |