[PATCH RFA] Increase maximum section index

[Jim Blandy]

Go ahead and check this in for now.  I have a patch which makes it
dynamically sized, but my patch is probably incomplete.

Frankly, I don't understand what most of the section-related stuff in
GDB really means.  I think it needs either an overhaul, or a nice
essay in gdbint.texinfo.  Volunteers?

Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl> writes:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> The current Hurd libc (glibc 2.2), has .bss as section number 49.
> Since the maximum GDB section number is 40 this means that inspecting
> uninitialized variables in libc fails horribly.  We should probably
> make the number of sections a dynamic quantity, but meanwhile I
> propose the following patch.
> 
> OK to check this in?
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> 2000-12-03  Mark Kettenis  <kettenis@gnu.org>
> 
> 	* gdb-stabs.h (SECT_OFF_MAX): Increase to 64.
> 	* symfile.h (MAX_SECTIONS): Increase to 64.
> 
> 
> Index: gdb-stabs.h
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/gdb-stabs.h,v
> retrieving revision 1.3
> diff -u -p -r1.3 gdb-stabs.h
> --- gdb-stabs.h	2000/05/04 16:52:33	1.3
> +++ gdb-stabs.h	2000/12/04 23:30:45
> @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
>  #if !defined (GDBSTABS_H)
>  #define GDBSTABS_H
>  
> -#define	SECT_OFF_MAX	40	/* Count of possible values */
> +#define	SECT_OFF_MAX	64	/* Count of possible values */
>  
>  /* The stab_section_info chain remembers info from the ELF symbol table,
>     while psymtabs are being built for the other symbol tables in the 
> Index: symfile.h
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/symfile.h,v
> retrieving revision 1.6
> diff -u -p -r1.6 symfile.h
> --- symfile.h	2000/09/02 00:12:17	1.6
> +++ symfile.h	2000/12/04 23:30:45
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>  /* Definitions for reading symbol files into GDB.
> -   Copyright (C) 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996
> +   Copyright (C) 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 2000
>     Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>  
>     This file is part of GDB.
> @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ struct psymbol_allocation_list
>     solib.c to communicate the section addresses in shared objects to
>     symbol_file_add (). */
>   
> -#define MAX_SECTIONS 40
> +#define MAX_SECTIONS 64
>  struct section_addr_info 
>  {
>    /* Sections whose names are file format dependent. */
> 
> 
>