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Re: Patch for pascal-dynamic arrays
On Sun, 16 May 2010 19:04:27 +0200, Joost van der Sluis wrote:
> That's because type_length_get() (gdbtypes.c) does not return 0 when the
> high and low-bound are equal to each other.
That's correct. Both DW_AT_lower_bound and DW_AT_upper_bound express the
boundaries inclusively. Array of length 0 must have DW_AT_upper_bound equal
to DW_AT_lower_bound minus one.
If you do not feel confortable with DW_AT_upper_bound that way you can also
use DW_AT_lower_bound and DW_AT_count with value 0.
> There's also a second problem. The lower bound is 1 for strings. With
> Jonas' patch for fpc the upper bound of strings is 0 when not allocated.
That looks correct.
> Leading to a size of -1.
That should lead to a size of 0.
I am not sure where is a problem there but GDB handles non-pascal arrays of
length zero right AFAIK.
Thanks,
Jan