Multiple personalities gdb?

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at cygnus dot com>]

I am wondering about these two constants:

gdb-stabs.h:41:#define	SECT_OFF_MAX	16	/* Count of possible values */

and 

symfile.h:64:#define MAX_SECTIONS 40

The first is used to determine the size of the sections array in
the objfile structure:
struct stab_section_info
  {
    char *filename;
    CORE_ADDR sections[SECT_OFF_MAX];
    struct stab_section_info *next;
    int found;			/* Count of times it's found in searching */
  };


The second is used to store the information from which the
objfile->section_offsets are filled up:

struct section_addr_info {
  struct other_sections
  {
    CORE_ADDR addr;
    char *name;
    int sectindex;
  } other[MAX_SECTIONS];
};

while for section_offsets we have:

struct section_offsets
  {
    CORE_ADDR offsets[1];	/* As many as needed. */
  };

Should MAX_SECTIONS == SECT_OFF_MAX ?

As I understand it, SECT_OFF_MAX is the maximum value that a section
index can have. Souldn't it at least be increased? I have seen
sections with indexes higher than 16.

Elena