gdb can't handle a DIE with both sibling and children

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@mvista.com
Thu Jul 31 18:47:00 GMT 2003


On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 11:27:12AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 02:20:49PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > 
> > Why don't you be more specific?  What problem is it causing, on what
> > input?
> > 
> 
> I am trying to add support for DW_TAG_entry_point. 
> 
>  <1><8e>: Abbrev Number: 4 (DW_TAG_subprogram)
> 
> has both sibling and children. Since we skip to sibling, we miss the
> children, which is
> 
>  <2><c3>: Abbrev Number: 6 (DW_TAG_entry_point)

In that case, you're changing the invariants of that function.  You'll
have to find a new algorithm for it.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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