gdb: safety checks in skip_prologue_using_sal
While working on the previous patch I reverted this commit: commit e86e87f7 Date: Tue Nov 28 16:23:32 2006 +0000 * symtab.c (find_pc_sect_line): Do not return a line before the start of a symtab. When I re-ran the testsuite I saw some GDB crashes in the tests: gdb.dwarf2/dw2-line-number-zero.exp gdb.dwarf2/dw2-lines.exp gdb.dwarf2/dw2-vendor-extended-opcode.exp GDB was reading beyond the end of an array in the function skip_prologue_using_sal. Now, without the above commit reverted I don't believe that this should ever happen. Reverting the above commit effectively breaks GDB's symtab_and_line lookup, we try to find a result for an address, and return the wrong symtab and line-table. In skip_prologue_using_sal we then walk the line table looking for an appropriate entry, except we never find one, and GDB just keeps going, wandering off the end of the array. However, I think adding extra protection to prevent walking off the end of the array is pretty cheap, and if something does go wrong in the future then this should prevent a random crash. Obviously, I have no reproducer for this, as I said, I don't think this should impact GDB at all, this is just adding a little extra caution. Reviewed-By:Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
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