RE: Bug handling zero sized symbols in minsyms.c

["Robert Norton" <rnorton at broadcom dot com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gdb-owner@sourceware.org 
> [mailto:gdb-owner@sourceware.org] On Behalf Of Robert Norton
> Sent: 03 July 2008 11:17
> To: Michael Snyder
> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
> Subject: RE: Bug handling zero sized symbols in minsyms.c
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael Snyder [mailto:msnyder@specifix.com] 
> > Sent: 02 July 2008 18:45
> > To: Robert Norton
> > Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
> > Subject: Re: Bug handling zero sized symbols in minsyms.c
> > 
> > On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 09:58 -0700, Robert Norton wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > In minsyms.c:lookup_minimal_symbol_by_pc_section() there is 
> > some code
> > > which attempts to prefer symbols with sizes over those with 
> > zero size.
> > > This is quite useful[1]. Unfortunately the present code 
> > will only work
> > > if there is at most one zero-sized symbol. The fix is 
> > around line 503:
> > > 
> > >  if (MSYMBOL_SIZE (&msymbol[hi]) == 0
> > >    && best_zero_sized == -1)
> > >    {
> > >    	best_zero_sized = hi;
> > >       hi--;          
> > >       continue;      
> > >    }
> > > 
> > > SHOULD be:
> > > 
> > > if (MSYMBOL_SIZE (&msymbol[hi]) == 0)
> > > 	{
> > > 	      if (best_zero_sized == -1)
> > > 	        best_zero_sized = hi;
> > > 	      hi--;
> > > 	      continue;
> > > 	}
> > > 
> > > We keep the highest zero-sized symbol as the best but continue to
> > > iterate backwards until we hit a non-zero-sized symbol or 
> run out of
> > > symbols. It's pretty clear that this is what was originally 
> > intended.
> > 
> > Your change is good, thanks.
> > 
> > > I can get copyright assigment for this if required 
> although it seems
> > > pretty trivial...
> > 
> > Not necessary, but feel free to if you'd like.
> > I think this is at least the second change you've submitted.
> 
> It turns out that we (Broadcom) already have one on file, so 
> no problems
> there.
> 
> > Could you give us a change log entry please?
> 
> How about:
> 
> 2008-07-03 Robert Norton (rnorton@broadcom.com)
> 
>    * minsyms.c: Fix a bug with ignoring zero-sized symbols 
> when looking
> up the minsym for a PC.

What is the status of this patch?

Robert