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Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/symfile.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/symfile.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/symfile.c b/gdb/symfile.c index 2850af3c54..cdf12a674b 100644 --- a/gdb/symfile.c +++ b/gdb/symfile.c @@ -224,9 +224,10 @@ sort_symtab_syms (s) } } -/* Make a copy of the string at PTR with SIZE characters in the symbol obstack - (and add a null character at the end in the copy). - Returns the address of the copy. */ +/* Make a null terminated copy of the string at PTR with SIZE characters in + the obstack pointed to by OBSTACKP . Returns the address of the copy. + Note that the string at PTR does not have to be null terminated, I.E. it + may be part of a larger string and we are only saving a substring. */ char * obsavestring (ptr, size, obstackp) @@ -235,8 +236,9 @@ obsavestring (ptr, size, obstackp) struct obstack *obstackp; { register char *p = (char *) obstack_alloc (obstackp, size + 1); - /* Open-coded memcpy--saves function call time. - These strings are usually short. */ + /* Open-coded memcpy--saves function call time. These strings are usually + short. FIXME: Is this really still true with a compiler that can + inline memcpy? */ { register char *p1 = ptr; register char *p2 = p; @@ -248,8 +250,8 @@ obsavestring (ptr, size, obstackp) return p; } -/* Concatenate strings S1, S2 and S3; return the new string. - Space is found in the symbol_obstack. */ +/* Concatenate strings S1, S2 and S3; return the new string. Space is found + in the obstack pointed to by OBSTACKP. */ char * obconcat (obstackp, s1, s2, s3) |
