[PATCH] ada-lang.c, null pointer

Joel Brobecker brobecker@adacore.com
Tue Aug 14 20:21:00 GMT 2007


> Yeah, Joel, that looks fine to me.  You want to check it in?

Cool!

2007-08-14  Joel Brobecker  <brobecker@adacore.com>
            Michael Snyder  <msnyder@access-company.com>

        * ada-lang.c (field_alignment): Guard against NULL.

I have checked this in.

Thanks again, Michael.
-- 
Joel
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Index: ada-lang.c
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RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/ada-lang.c,v
retrieving revision 1.100
diff -u -p -r1.100 ada-lang.c
--- ada-lang.c	6 Aug 2007 20:07:44 -0000	1.100
+++ ada-lang.c	14 Aug 2007 03:45:04 -0000
@@ -6116,9 +6116,17 @@ static unsigned int
 field_alignment (struct type *type, int f)
 {
   const char *name = TYPE_FIELD_NAME (type, f);
-  int len = (name == NULL) ? 0 : strlen (name);
+  int len;
   int align_offset;
 
+  /* The field name should never be null, unless the debugging information
+     is somehow malformed.  In this case, we assume the field does not
+     require any alignment.  */
+  if (name == NULL)
+    return 1;
+
+  len = strlen (name);
+
   if (!isdigit (name[len - 1]))
     return 1;
 


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