From 64a1bf195752a461f0e44b853a1e2769d182de3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@gnat.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:16:18 +0000
Subject: [PATCH]         * ada-lang.c (field_alignment): Guard against NULL.

---
 gdb/ChangeLog  |  5 +++++
 gdb/ada-lang.c | 10 +++++++++-
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 581c8d5b1d..b8d213916e 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2007-08-14  Joel Brobecker  <brobecker@adacore.com>
+            Michael Snyder  <msnyder@access-company.com>
+
+	* ada-lang.c (field_alignment): Guard against NULL.
+
 2007-08-14  Joel Brobecker  <brobecker@adacore.com>
 
 	* MAINTAINERS (Global Maintainers): Add self.
diff --git a/gdb/ada-lang.c b/gdb/ada-lang.c
index 0a27ba089e..4b1e2921fd 100644
--- a/gdb/ada-lang.c
+++ b/gdb/ada-lang.c
@@ -6116,9 +6116,17 @@ static unsigned int
 field_alignment (struct type *type, int f)
 {
   const char *name = TYPE_FIELD_NAME (type, f);
-  int len = (name == NULL) ? 0 : strlen (name);
+  int len;
   int align_offset;
 
+  /* The field name should never be null, unless the debugging information
+     is somehow malformed.  In this case, we assume the field does not
+     require any alignment.  */
+  if (name == NULL)
+    return 1;
+
+  len = strlen (name);
+
   if (!isdigit (name[len - 1]))
     return 1;