bitrot in buildsym.c:start_subfile
Doug Evans
dje@transmeta.com
Thu Apr 4 10:08:00 GMT 2002
Andrew Cagney writes:
> > In buildsym.c there's this:
> >
> > /* Start recording information about source code that came from an
> > included (or otherwise merged-in) source file with a different
> > name. NAME is the name of the file (cannot be NULL), DIRNAME is
> > the directory in which it resides (or NULL if not known). */
>
> Guess the comment is wrong. Any hints from the
> callers?
If name is NULL when subfiles is not-NULL, start_subfile will segv
in FILENAME_CMP [maybe subfiles will always be NULL when name is NULL].
What does it mean for name to be NULL?
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