Solibs and objfile BFD ownership

Paul Pluzhnikov ppluzhnikov@google.com
Fri Aug 21 18:04:00 GMT 2009


On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Tom Tromey<tromey@redhat.com> wrote:

> This is ok.   Thanks.

So committed.

> Paul> +   gdb_assert (*p_refcount == 1 || *p_refcount == 2);
>
> This assertion is a bit strange, but I suppose it is harmless.   If we
> ever want more sharing, we can always just remove it.   In the meantime I
> suppose it is checking that we don't over-share somehow.

The assertion was intended to catch somebody else in GDB using bfd_usrdata
for some other purpose (in a way I didn't find).

I think it's safe to leave it in for now.

Thanks,
-- 
Paul Pluzhnikov



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