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This fixes a GDB crash reported in bug pr/28900, related to reading in some stabs debug information. In this commit my goal is to stop GDB crashing. I am not trying to ensure that GDB makes the best possible use of the available stabs debug information. At this point I consider stabs a legacy debug format, with only limited support in GDB. So, the problem appears to be that, when reading in the stabs data, we need to find a N_SO entry, this is the entry that defines the start of a compilation unit (or at least the location of a corresponding source file). It is while handling an N_SO that GDB creates a psymtab to hold the incoming debug information (symbols, etc). The problem we hit in the bug is that we encounter some symbol information (an N_PC entry) outside of an N_SO entry - that is we find some symbol information that is not associated with any source file. We already have some protection for this case, look (in read_dbx_symtab) at the handling of N_PC entries of type 'F' and 'f', if we have no psymtab (the pst variable is nullptr) then we issue a complaint. However, for whatever reason, in both 'f' and 'F' handling, there is one place where we assume that the pst variable (the psymtab) is not nullptr. This is a mistake. In this commit, I guard these two locations (in 'f' and 'F' handling) so we no longer assume pst is not nullptr. While I was at it, I audited all the other uses of pst in read_dbx_symtab, and in every potentially dangerous case I added a nullptr check, and issue a suitable complaint if pst is found to be nullptr. It might well be true that we could/should do something smarter if we see a debug symbol outside of an N_SO entry, and if anyone wanted to do that work, they're welcome too. But this commit is just about preventing the nullptr access, and the subsequent GDB crash. I don't have any tests for this change, I have no idea how to generate weird stabs data for testing. The original binary from the bug report now loads just fine without GDB crashing. Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28900
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