Re: PATCH: Fix ICE in dwarf2out.c

["Anthony Green" <green at redhat dot com>]

Daniel wrote:
> Just a note, doing so is, or at least should be, pointless.
> Unless your debugger can't get the symbols from the actual executable,
> or something.

We use this info to implement a language feature
(java.lang.Throwable.printStackTrace())

fencer[1036] cat foo.java
public class foo
{
  public static void main (String[] args)
    {
      try
        {
          String x = null;
          System.out.println (x.length());
        }
      catch (Exception e)
        {
          e.printStackTrace ();
        }
    }
}
fencer[1037] gcj -o foo foo.java --main=foo
fencer[1038] ./foo
java.lang.NullPointerException
   at 0x08048c98: foo.main(java.lang.String[]) (/horton/green/foo.java:8)
   at 0x40168d62: _Jv_CreateJavaVM(void)
(/horton/green/net/i/lib/libgcj.so.2)
   at 0x40168e92: JvRunMain (/horton/green/net/i/lib/libgcj.so.2)
   at 0x08048c22: main (/tmp/ccEvv0K3main.i:0)
   at 0x404cb1eb: __libc_start_main (/lib/libc.so.6)
   at 0x08048b41: _start (??:0)