Re: [PATCH] Remove some "stabsread" references

On 7/16/26 5:17 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
> I noticed a stray reference to "stabsread".  This patch removes these.
>
> I also removed a bit of Ada code that, I believe, was only relevant to
> the stabs reader.

This seems pretty obvious. Especially since the comment in symtab.h (at 
least to me), implies that m_size is only used for stabsread, so it 
feels more accurate now.

Reviewed-By: Guinevere Larsen <[email protected]>

> ---
>   gdb/ada-lang.c | 5 -----
>   gdb/gdbtypes.h | 4 ++--
>   gdb/symtab.h   | 4 +---
>   3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/gdb/ada-lang.c b/gdb/ada-lang.c
> index 85b08af8c06..b6de3b9e0fb 100644
> --- a/gdb/ada-lang.c
> +++ b/gdb/ada-lang.c
> @@ -3328,11 +3328,6 @@ ada_index_type (struct type *type, int n, const char *name)
>   	  type = type->target_type ();
>   	}
>         result_type = ada_check_typedef (type)->index_type ()->target_type ();
> -      /* FIXME: The stabs type r(0,0);bound;bound in an array type
> -	 has a target type of TYPE_CODE_UNDEF.  We compensate here, but
> -	 perhaps stabsread.c would make more sense.  */
> -      if (result_type && result_type->code () == TYPE_CODE_UNDEF)
> -	result_type = NULL;
>       }
>     else
>       {
> diff --git a/gdb/gdbtypes.h b/gdb/gdbtypes.h
> index 572bf6d3d6f..f2132e63e8c 100644
> --- a/gdb/gdbtypes.h
> +++ b/gdb/gdbtypes.h
> @@ -1611,8 +1611,8 @@ struct fn_fieldlist
>   {
>   
>     /* The overloaded name.
> -     This is generally allocated in the objfile's obstack.
> -     However stabsread.c sometimes uses malloc.  */
> +     This is generally allocated in the objfile's obstack, but it
> +     could also be statically allocated.  */
>   
>     const char *name;
>   
> diff --git a/gdb/symtab.h b/gdb/symtab.h
> index 7b96b8c989c..6443216fd7f 100644
> --- a/gdb/symtab.h
> +++ b/gdb/symtab.h
> @@ -803,9 +803,7 @@ struct minimal_symbol : public general_symbol_info
>       m_target_flag_2 = target_flag_2;
>     }
>   
> -  /* Size of this symbol.  stabs_end_psymtab in stabsread.c uses this
> -     information to calculate the end of the partial symtab based on the
> -     address of the last symbol plus the size of the last symbol.  */
> +  /* Size of this symbol.  */
>   
>     unsigned long m_size;
>   
>
> base-commit: a9b7bbb1729d5ac6d3623bfe56a54d8b9936f160


-- 
Cheers,
Guinevere Larsen
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