http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-03/msg00946.html Subject: [patch] ada: Fix rashes on gdbarch garbage Hi Joel, for gdb.ada/str_ref_cmp.exp on x86_64-fedora15-linux-gnu it turns: (gdb) print String_Var (1 .. 3) = "Hel" ERROR: Process no longer exists UNRESOLVED: gdb.ada/str_ref_cmp.exp: print String_Var (1 .. 3) = "Hel" -> (gdb) print String_Var (1 .. 3) = "Hel" $1 = false (gdb) FAIL: gdb.ada/str_ref_cmp.exp: print String_Var (1 .. 3) = "Hel" GDB crashes the former way without this fix on: gcc-gnat-4.6.0-0.14.fc15.x86_64 gcc-gnat-4.5.1-4.fc14.x86_64 I cannot test FSF gcc <=4.5 myself as its Ada build errors out for me on: uintp.adb:242:22: expect type "Hnum" defined at line 91 GDB PASSes on these GNATs even without this fix but that is not the point: GNAT 4.7.0 20110320 (experimental) GNAT 4.6.0 20110320 (prerelease) This is only a suggestion, I do not know much about the ada-* code. Thanks, Jan gdb/ 2011-03-20 Jan Kratochvil * ada-lang.c (replace_operator_with_call): Copy also GDBARCH. --- a/gdb/ada-lang.c +++ b/gdb/ada-lang.c @@ -3661,6 +3661,7 @@ replace_operator_with_call (struct expression **expp, int pc, int nargs, newexp->nelts = exp->nelts + 7 - oplen; newexp->language_defn = exp->language_defn; + newexp->gdbarch = exp->gdbarch; memcpy (newexp->elts, exp->elts, EXP_ELEM_TO_BYTES (pc)); memcpy (newexp->elts + pc + 7, exp->elts + pc + oplen, EXP_ELEM_TO_BYTES (exp->nelts - pc - oplen));