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Re: Simple but crucial bug fix to gdb

To: Fernando Nasser <fnasser at cygnus dot com>
Subject: Re: Simple but crucial bug fix to gdb
From: Jim Blandy <jimb at zwingli dot cygnus dot com>
Date: 30 May 2001 22:19:02 -0500
Cc: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>,gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
References: <3.0.5.32.20010530142745.01470ec0@pophost.pdxuxbre.lmc.com><20010530173650.A21397@redhat.com> <3B15711D.BEA4B77E@cygnus.com>

Fernando Nasser <fnasser@cygnus.com> writes:
> I cannot approve the patch because I am not the maintainer of the
> stabs reader, but (for the reasons you've explained above) this
> seems to fall clearly into the obvious fix rule.

This is *not* an obvious fix.

The stabs reader has seen a symbol definition, before it has any idea
what compilation unit that symbol belongs to.  Are you *sure* it's
okay to just ignore that symbol definition?  Won't the psymtab's start
and end addresses get set wrong?

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