Remove minsym termination

I was curious what used the terminating "null" minimal symbol; and
after looking I could not find anything.  This patch removes
terminate_minimal_symbol_table and the extra minimal symbol that is
allocated for it.

gdb/ChangeLog
2019-03-15  Tom Tromey  <tom@tromey.com>

	* symfile.c (reread_symbols): Update.
	* objfiles.c (objfile::objfile): Update.
	* minsyms.h (terminate_minimal_symbol_table): Don't declare.
	* minsyms.c (lookup_minimal_symbol_by_pc_section): Update
	comment.
	(minimal_symbol_reader::install): Update.
	(terminate_minimal_symbol_table): Remove.
	* jit.c (jit_object_close_impl): Update.
This commit is contained in:
Tom Tromey 2019-03-02 12:05:57 -07:00
parent 788c80d1af
commit 741d7538b7
6 changed files with 14 additions and 49 deletions

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@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
2019-03-15 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* symfile.c (reread_symbols): Update.
* objfiles.c (objfile::objfile): Update.
* minsyms.h (terminate_minimal_symbol_table): Don't declare.
* minsyms.c (lookup_minimal_symbol_by_pc_section): Update
comment.
(minimal_symbol_reader::install): Update.
(terminate_minimal_symbol_table): Remove.
* jit.c (jit_object_close_impl): Update.
2019-03-15 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* minsyms.c (minimal_symbol_reader::record_full): Remove some

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@ -805,8 +805,6 @@ jit_object_close_impl (struct gdb_symbol_callbacks *cb,
OBJF_NOT_FILENAME);
objfile->per_bfd->gdbarch = target_gdbarch ();
terminate_minimal_symbol_table (objfile);
j = NULL;
for (i = obj->symtabs; i; i = j)
{

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@ -735,11 +735,8 @@ lookup_minimal_symbol_by_pc_section (CORE_ADDR pc_in, struct obj_section *sectio
{
CORE_ADDR pc = pc_in;
/* If this objfile has a minimal symbol table, go search it using
a binary search. Note that a minimal symbol table always consists
of at least two symbols, a "real" symbol and the terminating
"null symbol". If there are no real symbols, then there is no
minimal symbol table at all. */
/* If this objfile has a minimal symbol table, go search it
using a binary search. */
if (objfile->per_bfd->minimal_symbol_count > 0)
{
@ -1363,7 +1360,7 @@ minimal_symbol_reader::install ()
compact out the duplicate entries. Once we have a final table,
we will give back the excess space. */
alloc_count = m_msym_count + m_objfile->per_bfd->minimal_symbol_count + 1;
alloc_count = m_msym_count + m_objfile->per_bfd->minimal_symbol_count;
obstack_blank (&m_objfile->per_bfd->storage_obstack,
alloc_count * sizeof (struct minimal_symbol));
msymbols = (struct minimal_symbol *)
@ -1406,16 +1403,6 @@ minimal_symbol_reader::install ()
msymbols = (struct minimal_symbol *)
obstack_finish (&m_objfile->per_bfd->storage_obstack);
/* We also terminate the minimal symbol table with a "null symbol",
which is *not* included in the size of the table. This makes it
easier to find the end of the table when we are handed a pointer
to some symbol in the middle of it. Zero out the fields in the
"null symbol" allocated at the end of the array. Note that the
symbol count does *not* include this null symbol, which is why it
is indexed by mcount and not mcount-1. */
memset (&msymbols[mcount], 0, sizeof (struct minimal_symbol));
/* Attach the minimal symbol table to the specified objfile.
The strings themselves are also located in the storage_obstack
of this objfile. */
@ -1431,27 +1418,6 @@ minimal_symbol_reader::install ()
}
}
/* See minsyms.h. */
void
terminate_minimal_symbol_table (struct objfile *objfile)
{
if (! objfile->per_bfd->msymbols)
objfile->per_bfd->msymbols = XOBNEW (&objfile->per_bfd->storage_obstack,
minimal_symbol);
{
struct minimal_symbol *m
= &objfile->per_bfd->msymbols[objfile->per_bfd->minimal_symbol_count];
memset (m, 0, sizeof (*m));
/* Don't rely on these enumeration values being 0's. */
MSYMBOL_TYPE (m) = mst_unknown;
MSYMBOL_SET_LANGUAGE (m, language_unknown,
&objfile->per_bfd->storage_obstack);
}
}
/* Check if PC is in a shared library trampoline code stub.
Return minimal symbol for the trampoline entry or NULL if PC is not
in a trampoline code stub. */

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@ -148,13 +148,6 @@ class minimal_symbol_reader
int m_msym_count;
};
/* Create the terminating entry of OBJFILE's minimal symbol table.
If OBJFILE->msymbols is zero, allocate a single entry from
OBJFILE->objfile_obstack; otherwise, just initialize
OBJFILE->msymbols[OBJFILE->minimal_symbol_count]. */
void terminate_minimal_symbol_table (struct objfile *objfile);
/* Return whether MSYMBOL is a function/method. If FUNC_ADDRESS_P is

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@ -411,8 +411,6 @@ objfile::objfile (bfd *abfd, const char *name, objfile_flags flags_)
per_bfd = get_objfile_bfd_data (this, abfd);
terminate_minimal_symbol_table (this);
/* Add this file onto the tail of the linked list of other such files. */
if (object_files == NULL)

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@ -2580,7 +2580,6 @@ reread_symbols (void)
objfile_set_sym_fns (objfile, find_sym_fns (objfile->obfd));
build_objfile_section_table (objfile);
terminate_minimal_symbol_table (objfile);
/* We use the same section offsets as from last time. I'm not
sure whether that is always correct for shared libraries. */