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Re: Fix for bfd/dwarf1.c
- To: Will Cohen <wcohen at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: Fix for bfd/dwarf1.c
- From: Alan Modra <alan at linuxcare dot com dot au>
- Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 11:37:11 +1100 (EST)
- cc: binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Will Cohen wrote:
> 2000-10-03 Will Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
>
> * dwarf1.c (_bfd_dwarf1_find_nearest_line): Added code to
> initialize fields in aUnit.
>
> This fixes a problem with some unitialized pointer fields being
> filled with garbage, causing the linker to crash on winNT
> when trying to link code with debugging information.
But "aUnit" is allocated using bfd_zalloc, so I don't see what your patch
is doing. The fields you are zeroing should already be zero from the
bfd_zalloc.
Alan Modra
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