advice wanted on complex obstack bug...

[Alan Lehotsky]

At 01:41 -0700 3/28/99, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>
> [ ... ]
> FYI, I just installed a copy of the code from dbxout.c which handles this
> situation into sdbout.c.  Since you didn't provide a testcase, I can't
> actually test the patch though.
>
>

	Yeah.  Test cases that actually "fail" are incredibly tough
	to find.  I'm pretty sure that the original code example
	(that SIGSEGV-ed in my compiler wouldn't fail in any other
	compiler.

	But this is probably a lurking problem for anybody
	that has SDB debugging support.

	Thanks for the pointer to how dbx support handles this.

	I like it much better than the solution I implemented of passing
	an extra pointer around.

-- Al

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