FW: GDB 5.1 on Solaris 2.8

["debashis mahata" <debashis dot mahata at wipro dot com>]

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-----Original Message-----
From: Debashis Mahata [mailto:debashis.mahata@wipro.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 2:51 PM
To: Albert Chin-A-Young
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: RE: GDB 5.1 on Solaris 2.8


Hi Albert,

I am marking this mail to gdb list for others benefit/comments.

Originally I had made changes on GDB 4.18. Along with these changes, I also
had some other changes which are not related to the current problem.
Currently I have source code of GDB 5.0 in my machine. So I am attaching
three files (taken from GDB 5.0) where I made the changes for '/' and double
';' problem.

The '/' problem in N_SO stab looks like a bug in compiler since it violates
the documentation and probably SUN should provide a patch for that in
future. My fix for this problem is in file partial-stab.h and dbxread.c. The
current fix might be Solaris specific (I am not very sure what will happen
if some compiler generate single N_SO instead of two as in case of Solaris).
Although a generic fix is not required for me at this moment, any generic
fix is welcome.

I have placed the fix for double ';' in file stabsread.c. Stab document does
not says that the structure and unions should ends with two consecutive ';'.
GDB logic should not assume two consecutive ';' at the end. Either SUN
should also fix this or otherwise a permanent fix is required in GDB.

I am attaching the updated version of partial-stab.h, dbxread.c,
stabsread.c, and diff.txt .

Thanks,
debashis mahata.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Albert Chin-A-Young [mailto:china@thewrittenword.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 9:27 PM
> To: debashis mahata
> Subject: Re: GDB 5.1 on Solaris 2.8
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 09:39:55AM +0500, debashis  mahata wrote:
> >  Because of that GDB takes "/h/mahatad/DBG/GDB" as a file name. The
> >  corresponding code is in the partial-stab.h -
> >    case N_SO:
> >     {
> >      ....
> >        p = strrchr (namestring, '/');
> >        if (p && *(p + 1) == '\000')
> >          continue; /* Simply ignore directory name SOs */
> >
> >     }
> >  I have put some fix for these two places in my local GDB source. After
> >  the fix -
>
> Can you forward your local patch to me?
>
> --
> albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com)
>

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