propagate from branch 'com.redhat.elfutils' (head b4944cf70801d9dac056f4f80ef1334e5acb8bdc)

            to branch 'com.redhat.elfutils.roland.pending' (head e7e402c668fb0670fc5f6b6a522853ae88f32f11)

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/libdw/dwarf_getlocation.c b/libdw/dwarf_getlocation.c
index f513f3ae..cefd052b 100644
--- a/libdw/dwarf_getlocation.c
+++ b/libdw/dwarf_getlocation.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* Return location expression list.
-   Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005 Red Hat, Inc.
+   Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006 Red Hat, Inc.
    This file is part of Red Hat elfutils.
    Written by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>, 2000.
 
@@ -472,8 +472,12 @@ dwarf_getlocation_addr (attr, address, llbufs, listlens, maxlocs)
 					 &base) != 0)
 	    {
 	      if (INTUSE(dwarf_errno) () == 0)
-		goto invalid;
-	      return -1;
+		/* The compiler provided no base address when it should
+		   have.  Buggy GCC does this when it used absolute
+		   addresses in the location list and no DW_AT_ranges.  */
+		base = 0;
+	      else
+		return -1;
 	    }
 	}