* dwarf2read.c (read_array_type): When building the type for an

array of unspecified length, make sure to choose the upper bound
so that the array's total length comes out to be zero --- that's
how we represent such arrays.

diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index c2d9797..1cefe8b 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2003-09-22  Jim Blandy  <jimb@redhat.com>
+
+       * dwarf2read.c (read_array_type): When building the type for an
+       array of unspecified length, make sure to choose the upper bound
+       so that the array's total length comes out to be zero --- that's
+       how we represent such arrays.
+
 2003-09-22  Michael Chastain  <mec@shout.net>
 
        * MAINTAINERS: Rename gdb.c++ to gdb.cp.

diff --git a/gdb/dwarf2read.c b/gdb/dwarf2read.c
index 468151f..bb614e5 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/dwarf2read.c
+++ b/gdb/dwarf2read.c
@@ -3237,8 +3237,14 @@ read_array_type (struct die_info *die, struct objfile *objfile,
                     with a DW_FORM_block1 attribute.
                     FIXME: GDB does not yet know how to handle dynamic
                     arrays properly, treat them as arrays with unspecified
-                    length for now.  */
-                 high = -1;
+                    length for now.
+
+                     FIXME: jimb/2003-09-22: GDB does not really know
+                     how to handle arrays of unspecified length
+                     either; we just represent them as zero-length
+                     arrays.  Choose an appropriate upper bound given
+                     the lower bound we've computed above.  */
+                 high = low - 1;
                }
              else
                {