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-rw-r--r--gdb/source.c14
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diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 707b2f2..cb49ab9 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
2009-01-08 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
+ GDB crash with empty executable name (MinGW).
+ * source.c (openp): Add assert that parameter string is not NULL.
+ if parameter string is an empty string, then return with a failure
+ immediately.
+
+2009-01-08 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
+
Get rid of support for VAX Floats.
* ada-lang.h (ada_is_vax_floating_type, ada_vax_float_type_suffix)
(ada_vax_float_print_function): Delete.
diff --git a/gdb/source.c b/gdb/source.c
index fcfce65..2090326 100644
--- a/gdb/source.c
+++ b/gdb/source.c
@@ -707,6 +707,20 @@ openp (const char *path, int opts, const char *string,
/* The open syscall MODE parameter is not specified. */
gdb_assert ((mode & O_CREAT) == 0);
+ gdb_assert (string != NULL);
+
+ /* A file with an empty name cannot possibly exist. Report a failure
+ without further checking.
+
+ This is an optimization which also defends us against buggy
+ implementations of the "stat" function. For instance, we have
+ noticed that a MinGW debugger built on Windows XP 32bits crashes
+ when the debugger is started with an empty argument. */
+ if (string[0] == '\0')
+ {
+ errno = ENOENT;
+ return -1;
+ }
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