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Re: [patch] Fix dwarf2read to crash again

From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:07:26 -0400
Subject: Re: [patch] Fix dwarf2read to crash again
References: <20100421091303.GA19378@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <m3d3xqymld.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>

> My conclusion from these cases is that gdb ought to fail gracefully.

Agreed.

> I suspect we should even go so far as to wrap process_die (or possibly
> some more appropriate function) in a TRY_CATCH and skip DIEs that
> confuse gdb.

Sounds like a good idea to me.

-- 
Joel

References:
- [patch] Fix dwarf2read to crash again
  - From: Jan Kratochvil
- Re: [patch] Fix dwarf2read to crash again
  - From: Tom Tromey

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