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From: kewill!bryan@UUNET.UU.NET (Bryan Boreham)
Newsgroups: gnu.gdb.bug
Subject: Bug fix for add-file.
Message-ID: <8908021959.AA15346@edinburgh.kewill.uucp>
Date: 2 Aug 89 19:59:52 GMT
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diff -c dbxread.c~ dbxread.c
*** dbxread.c~  Thu Jul 20 09:04:42 1989
--- dbxread.c   Wed Aug  2 20:44:03 1989
***************
*** 3427,3433 ****
      perror_with_name (name);

    old_chain = make_cleanup (close, desc);
!   make_cleanup (free_current_contents, &name);

    READ_FILE_HEADERS (desc, name);

--- 3427,3437 ----
      perror_with_name (name);

    old_chain = make_cleanup (close, desc);
!
! /* Change by Bryan Boreham, Kewill, Wed Aug  2 20:43:19 1989.
!    name points into the middle of arg_string, so we don't want
!    to free it here.    */
! /*  make_cleanup (free_current_contents, &name); */

    READ_FILE_HEADERS (desc, name);


The comment should explain the problem; the memory in question is
usually owned by command_line_input and shouldn't be free'd anyway.

ET++ dynamically-linked applcations are now de-buggable; thanks to all
the MCC people who pointed me at add-file.

Bryan.