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Re: [commit] dwarf2read.c (load_partial_dies): Change condition to assert.
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Michael Eager <eager@eagerm.com> wrote:
> On 04/07/2012 12:39 PM, Doug Evans wrote:
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>> There's no caller where cu->per_cu == NULL,
>> and I'd rather have the assert.
>
>
> Per_cu data is flushed asynchronously in free_heap_comp_unit()
> and free_stack_comp_unit(). ?Are you sure that this can't happen?
Define "asynchronously".
My reading of all of the callers says it can't happen (modulo bugs of course).
I could have missed something of course (in which case let's get
something added to the testsuite to exercise the appropriate code
path).