[patch] fix for infinite recursion in lookup_symbol

[Daniel Berlin]

On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Jim Ingham wrote:

> Daniel,
>
> Well, while you are waiting, it might be nice to check in fixes for some
> of these, since they are pretty simple fixes, and the bugs are pretty
> annoying (in this case it causes gdb to crash, and people tend to REALLY
> hate it when their debugger crashes).

I can't without approval from Jim anyway. I'm still waiting for approval
for some simple changes I submitted a few weeks ago to be approved as
well, i don't want to juggle that many outstanding patches.

>  It wasted a couple of days of my
> time chasing it down, and apparently a couple of days of Fernando's time
> as well.
Sorry to hear that. If you look back, ti was reported in either november
or december, and a huge discussion ensued.
Wish there was something more I could do, but it's not my area of
maintenance, so all I can do is submit patches.