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| author | Doug Evans <dje@google.com> | 2012-06-05 01:17:55 +0000 |
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| committer | Doug Evans <dje@google.com> | 2012-06-05 01:17:55 +0000 |
| commit | 4aad0dfce556cbd58b789830818cf311aff077e2 (patch) | |
| tree | 3bf6ea214d57410beec912ac3b3c05a73d3e5380 /gdb/buildsym.c | |
| parent | b741167bcb01616614947cfa750aceb94f39d0cb (diff) | |
| download | binutils-gdb-4aad0dfce556cbd58b789830818cf311aff077e2.tar.gz | |
* buildsym.c (make_blockvector): Add comment.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/buildsym.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/buildsym.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/buildsym.c b/gdb/buildsym.c index 20fabb7fbc0..f1fb4be4f37 100644 --- a/gdb/buildsym.c +++ b/gdb/buildsym.c @@ -496,10 +496,13 @@ make_blockvector (struct objfile *objfile) = addrmap_create_fixed (pending_addrmap, &objfile->objfile_obstack); else BLOCKVECTOR_MAP (blockvector) = 0; - + /* Some compilers output blocks in the wrong order, but we depend on their being in the right order so we can binary search. Check the - order and moan about it. */ + order and moan about it. + Note: Remember that the first two blocks are the global and static + blocks. We could special case that fact and begin checking at block 2. + To avoid making that assumption we do not. */ if (BLOCKVECTOR_NBLOCKS (blockvector) > 1) { for (i = 1; i < BLOCKVECTOR_NBLOCKS (blockvector); i++) |