From 8c2957c400a0b5564d7480e7f5cdd6453f1128c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Blandy Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:25:13 +0000 Subject: * dwarf2read.c (read_array_type): When building the type for an array of unspecified length, make sure to choose the upper bound so that the array's total length comes out to be zero --- that's how we represent such arrays. --- gdb/ChangeLog | 7 +++++++ gdb/dwarf2read.c | 10 ++++++++-- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'gdb') diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index c2d9797..1cefe8b 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2003-09-22 Jim Blandy + + * dwarf2read.c (read_array_type): When building the type for an + array of unspecified length, make sure to choose the upper bound + so that the array's total length comes out to be zero --- that's + how we represent such arrays. + 2003-09-22 Michael Chastain * MAINTAINERS: Rename gdb.c++ to gdb.cp. diff --git a/gdb/dwarf2read.c b/gdb/dwarf2read.c index 468151f..bb614e5 100644 --- a/gdb/dwarf2read.c +++ b/gdb/dwarf2read.c @@ -3237,8 +3237,14 @@ read_array_type (struct die_info *die, struct objfile *objfile, with a DW_FORM_block1 attribute. FIXME: GDB does not yet know how to handle dynamic arrays properly, treat them as arrays with unspecified - length for now. */ - high = -1; + length for now. + + FIXME: jimb/2003-09-22: GDB does not really know + how to handle arrays of unspecified length + either; we just represent them as zero-length + arrays. Choose an appropriate upper bound given + the lower bound we've computed above. */ + high = low - 1; } else { -- cgit v1.1