New branch for Fedora 11 merges

Sami Wagiaalla swagiaal@redhat.com
Fri Feb 27 22:04:00 GMT 2009


Sami Wagiaalla wrote:
> 
>> In read_func_scope (dwarf2read.c), if the name is not set (in this 
>> case it is) or dwarf2_read_pc_bounds fails (which it does), the code 
>> calls explore_abstract_origin with the address of a locally 
>> uninitialized variable (die_children). This is then simply 
>> dereferenced in explore_abstract_origin, and consequently passed to 
>> xmalloc, which attempts to allocate over 4GB in my case...
>>
> 
> I introduced this problem earlier when i was trying to resolve a 
> conflict that I had with a patch of Jan's. 
> 1de38657622396795ce681e64b03fb74e81e6c3d vs 
> 60eb8684d0d85d0884aca7a2f013e5eb16a51d47
> 
> I'll check in a fix for this. The issue is that sometimes a function Die 
> might now have high/low pc tags but it has an abstract origin tag 
> pointing to useful namespace information.
> 

I have check in a fix for this.



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