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Re: Fix immediate Darwin gdb crash


On Oct 22, 2012, at 4:50 PM, Josh Matthews wrote:

> Attempting to debug any binary on Darwin with gdb HEAD currently triggers an
> immediate segfault. This patch corrects that.

Hi,

> diff --git a/bfd/mach-o.c b/bfd/mach-o.c
> index 0379f4f..7c44c5a 100644
> --- a/bfd/mach-o.c
> +++ b/bfd/mach-o.c
> @@ -4863,6 +4863,10 @@ bfd_mach_o_close_and_cleanup (bfd *abfd)
>           free (dsym_filename);
>         }
>     }
> +  else if (bfd_get_format (abfd) == bfd_archive)
> +    {
> +      abfd->tdata.mach_o_fat_data = NULL;
> +    }
> 
>   return _bfd_generic_close_and_cleanup (abfd);
> }


I may have missed something, but won't this code also be called
for regular mach-o archives ?  Why not specially handle fat binary
and simply close all its members (if this is what we want).

Tristan.


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