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Re: [rfa/symtab] Move find_pc_section call to lookup_minimal_symbol_by_pc


Andrew Cagney writes:
 > 
 > > Um, I'm not sure what is happening.  My GNU/Linux amd64 box appears to pass both times:
 > 
 > I've found the right machine (YelloDog 3.0), the attached appears to 
 > work on both yellow dog and IRIX (and Fedora Core).
 > 
 > The new patch modifies find_pc_partial_function supply the PC's section 
 > when available.
 > 
 > Look ok?
 > 
 > The problem was that the symbol lookup was finding a symbol from a 
 > previous section, instead of no symbol in the current section.  That 
 > leads to this test (using Joe's rewrite):
 > 
 > > +  if (ecs->stop_func_name == NULL
 > > +      && step_over_calls == STEP_OVER_UNDEBUGGABLE)
 > > +    {
 > > +      /* We couldn't determine where we stopped, so we just stepped
 > > +         inside undebuggable code.  Since we want to step over this
 > > +         kind of code, we keep going until the inferior returns from
 > > +         the current function.  */
 > > +      handle_step_into_function (ecs);
 > > +      return;
 > > +    }
 > 
 > not triggering.  ->stop_func_name had a non-NULL but bogus symbol name.

So, the complete fix includes Joel's patch?

 > 
 > ok?

sure, let's see what other obscure cases break now. :-)

 > PS: I think GDB has a few too many symbol lookup interfaces :-(

yes.

 > 
 > 2004-02-06  Andrew Cagney  <cagney@redhat.com>
 > 
 > 	* blockframe.c (find_pc_partial_function): If find_pc_overlay
 > 	fails, try find_pc_section.  Fix PR c++/1267.
 > 	* minsyms.c (lookup_minimal_symbol_by_pc): Use find_pc_section
 > 	instead of find_pc_mapped_section.
 > 	(lookup_minimal_symbol_by_pc_section): If the SECTION is NULL, do
 > 	not default to the section containing PC.  Fix PR symtab/1519.
 > 



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