From 9cb602e111d316e5c1f857fbd2f33f5dfbc275b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Gilmore <gnu@cygnus>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1991 09:03:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] (value_fetch_lazy):  Avoid 0-length fetches.

---
 gdb/ChangeLog | 4 ++++
 gdb/valops.c  | 8 ++++++--
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index f7ad1dda78..f999d4e221 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Fri Oct 25 02:02:13 1991  John Gilmore  (gnu at cygnus.com)
+
+	* valops.c (value_fetch_lazy):  Avoid 0-length fetches.
+
 Thu Oct 24 23:06:40 1991  Fred Fish  (fnf at cygnus.com)
 
 	* dwarfread.c:  Add casts to remove compiler warnings.
diff --git a/gdb/valops.c b/gdb/valops.c
index 614317f537..07c96af55b 100644
--- a/gdb/valops.c
+++ b/gdb/valops.c
@@ -163,6 +163,9 @@ value_at_lazy (type, addr)
    data from the user's process, and clears the lazy flag to indicate
    that the data in the buffer is valid.
 
+   If the value is zero-length, we avoid calling read_memory, which would
+   abort.  We mark the value as fetched anyway -- all 0 bytes of it.
+
    This function returns a value because it is used in the VALUE_CONTENTS
    macro as part of an expression, where a void would not work.  The
    value is ignored.  */
@@ -173,8 +176,9 @@ value_fetch_lazy (val)
 {
   CORE_ADDR addr = VALUE_ADDRESS (val) + VALUE_OFFSET (val);
 
-  read_memory (addr, VALUE_CONTENTS_RAW (val), 
-	       TYPE_LENGTH (VALUE_TYPE (val)));
+  if (TYPE_LENGTH (VALUE_TYPE (val)))
+    read_memory (addr, VALUE_CONTENTS_RAW (val), 
+	         TYPE_LENGTH (VALUE_TYPE (val)));
   VALUE_LAZY (val) = 0;
   return 0;
 }