Re: Multiple personalities gdb?

[Kevin Buettner <kevinb at cygnus dot com>]

On Apr 20,  4:35pm, Elena Zannoni wrote:

> I am wondering about these two constants:
> 
> gdb-stabs.h:41:#define	SECT_OFF_MAX	16	/* Count of possible values */
> 
> and 
> 
> symfile.h:64:#define MAX_SECTIONS 40

[...]

> Should MAX_SECTIONS == SECT_OFF_MAX ?

It seems reasonable.  (But see below.)

> 
> As I understand it, SECT_OFF_MAX is the maximum value that a section
> index can have. Souldn't it at least be increased? I have seen
> sections with indexes higher than 16.

I was the one who changed the value of MAX_SECTIONS recently.  40
seemed big enough for my purposes, but in my opinion, this data
structure should really be dynamically sized/resized.

Since you've been changing struct section_addr_info recently, maybe
you could change it a little bit more...  Maybe to something along the
following lines:

    struct section_addr_info {
      int num_sections;
      struct section_addr_info_sections
      {
	CORE_ADDR addr;
	char *name;
	int sectindex;
      } sections[1];
    };

Then when you need ``n'' sections, allocate as follows:

    struct section_addr_info saip;

    saip = xmalloc (sizeof (struct section_addr_info) 
	            + (n - 1) * sizeof (struct section_addr_info_sections));
    saip->num_sections = n;
    ...