Re: [RFA] stabsread.c (define_symbol): Guard against bad stabstring input.

[Pedro Alves <pedro at codesourcery dot com>]

On Friday 11 March 2011 21:15:04, Michael Snyder wrote:
> Pedro Alves wrote:
> > On Saturday 05 March 2011 00:42:59, Pedro Alves wrote:
> >> On Saturday 05 March 2011 00:37:25, Michael Snyder wrote:
> >>> I think I heard someone say that gdb should be proof against all inputs?
> >> Yes, but bad inputs aren't gdb bugs, so those should be errors
> >> or warnings, not internal_errors.
> > 
> > for completeness: ... or "complaints", of which the symbol
> > readers are the biggest users, exactly to complain about
> > bad input debug info.  complaints have the nice property
> > that they warn once, and go quiet the next time the problem
> > appears --- when we see a malformed debug info problem, we
> > tend to see a lot of instances of the same in the same run,
> > so that feature prevents terminal flooding with a bunch of
> > duplicated warnings.
> > 
> 
> Thanks.  How about this?

Sure, thanks.

-- 
Pedro Alves