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Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/findvar.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/findvar.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/findvar.c b/gdb/findvar.c index fd1b9d7..11325cf 100644 --- a/gdb/findvar.c +++ b/gdb/findvar.c @@ -737,8 +737,20 @@ default_read_var_value (struct symbol *var, const struct block *var_block, symbol_objfile (var)); msym = lookup_data.result.minsym; + /* If we can't find the minsym there's a problem in the symbol info. + The symbol exists in the debug info, but it's missing in the minsym + table. */ if (msym == NULL) - error (_("No global symbol \"%s\"."), SYMBOL_LINKAGE_NAME (var)); + { + const char *flavour_name + = objfile_flavour_name (symbol_objfile (var)); + + /* We can't get here unless we've opened the file, so flavour_name + can't be NULL. */ + gdb_assert (flavour_name != NULL); + error (_("Missing %s symbol \"%s\"."), + flavour_name, SYMBOL_LINKAGE_NAME (var)); + } obj_section = MSYMBOL_OBJ_SECTION (lookup_data.result.objfile, msym); /* Relocate address, unless there is no section or the variable is a TLS variable. */ |