From bfd83ee1f64ca967e76755520fe779be8028600d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: emteere <47253321+emteere@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2021 22:13:01 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] GP-1184_emteere Allowing decompiler to produce results if
 HighGlobal does not have a symref tag

---
 .../main/java/ghidra/program/model/pcode/HighGlobal.java | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Ghidra/Framework/SoftwareModeling/src/main/java/ghidra/program/model/pcode/HighGlobal.java b/Ghidra/Framework/SoftwareModeling/src/main/java/ghidra/program/model/pcode/HighGlobal.java
index 54a236ae44..2177eddb6f 100644
--- a/Ghidra/Framework/SoftwareModeling/src/main/java/ghidra/program/model/pcode/HighGlobal.java
+++ b/Ghidra/Framework/SoftwareModeling/src/main/java/ghidra/program/model/pcode/HighGlobal.java
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ package ghidra.program.model.pcode;
 
 import ghidra.program.model.address.Address;
 import ghidra.program.model.data.DataType;
+import ghidra.util.Msg;
 import ghidra.util.xml.SpecXmlUtils;
 import ghidra.xml.XmlElement;
 import ghidra.xml.XmlPullParser;
@@ -58,10 +59,12 @@ public class HighGlobal extends HighVariable {
 			offset = SpecXmlUtils.decodeInt(attrString);
 		}
 		restoreInstances(parser, el);
-		if (symref == 0) {
-			throw new PcodeXMLException("Missing symref attribute in <high> tag");
+		if (symref != 0) {
+			symbol = function.getGlobalSymbolMap().getSymbol(symref);
+		}
+		else {
+			Msg.warn(this, "Missing symref attribute in <high> tag");
 		}
-		symbol = function.getGlobalSymbolMap().getSymbol(symref);
 		if (symbol == null) {	// If we don't already have symbol, synthesize it
 			DataType symbolType;
 			int symbolSize;