objdump --debugging hangs

[W Gerald Hicks]

I was trying to use 'objdump --debugging' to extract structure
definitions but objdump kept hanging on me.

The following patch made it quit hanging for me, don't know if this
really an effective fix...

--- binutils-2.11.2/binutils/debug.c.orig       Thu Jun  7 03:12:27 2001
+++ binutils-2.11.2/binutils/debug.c    Sat Jul  7 10:57:12 2001
@@ -2198,6 +2198,9 @@
                   debug_get_type_name (handle, type));
          return NULL;
        }
+      /* XXX - the last element seemed to reference itself */
+      if (l == l->next)
+       break;
     }


Cheers,

Jerry Hicks
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