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Date:      Wed, 04 Mar 1998 22:30:16 +0100
From:      Gary Jennejohn <garyj@muc.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   gdb dying in -current
Message-ID:  <199803042130.WAA13983@peedub.muc.de>

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I forget who had a problem with gdb core dumping under -current (but the
program he was trying to debug is called pot). Anyway, here's a diff
that allows me to run gdb on that binary. Check it out and provide
feedback, whoever you were :-) [beware - cut&paste !!!]

--- /contrib/gdb/gdb/partial-stab.h.ctm Wed Mar  4 22:16:31 1998
+++ /contrib/gdb/gdb/partial-stab.h     Wed Mar  4 22:18:22 1998
@@ -568,10 +568,10 @@
                 the bounds created by N_SO symbols.  If that's the case
                 use the address of this function as the low bound for
                 the partial symbol table.  */
-             if (pst->textlow == 0
+             if (pst && (pst->textlow == 0
                  || (CUR_SYMBOL_VALUE < pst->textlow
                      && CUR_SYMBOL_VALUE
-                          != ANOFFSET (section_offsets, SECT_OFF_TEXT)))
+                          != ANOFFSET (section_offsets, SECT_OFF_TEXT))))
                pst->textlow = CUR_SYMBOL_VALUE;
 #endif /* DBXREAD_ONLY */
              add_psymbol_to_list (namestring, p - namestring,
@@ -607,10 +607,10 @@
                 the bounds created by N_SO symbols.  If that's the case
                 use the address of this function as the low bound for
                 the partial symbol table.  */
-             if (pst->textlow == 0
+             if (pst && (pst->textlow == 0
                  || (CUR_SYMBOL_VALUE < pst->textlow
                      && CUR_SYMBOL_VALUE
-                          != ANOFFSET (section_offsets, SECT_OFF_TEXT)))
+                          != ANOFFSET (section_offsets, SECT_OFF_TEXT))))
                pst->textlow = CUR_SYMBOL_VALUE;
 #endif /* DBXREAD_ONLY */
              add_psymbol_to_list (namestring, p - namestring,


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