RFA: handle zero-length types in value_from_register

Jim Blandy jimb@redhat.com
Tue Jan 27 15:38:00 GMT 2004


Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org> writes:

> > 2004-01-27  Jim Blandy  <jimb@redhat.com>
> > 	* findvar.c (value_from_register): If the type has no length,
> > just
> > 	return an acceptable value --- don't report an internal error.
> >
> This looks to need a test case.

I tried to put one together, but the bug only occurs when the
zero-length value is allocated to a register.  I couldn't find any way
to make that happen at all.  So the only known instance of this bug
depends on bad debug info.



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