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Re: $ prefix to addresses in symbolsrec file was dropped (by mistake during a code cleanup, as far as I can see) between binutils 2.12 and 2.12.1


Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 09:20:05PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
>> In cvs revision 1.16 of bfd/srec.c, the $ prefix to addresses in a
>> symbolsrec file was dropped.
>> 
>> Based on the log message, it sounds like this was accidental, whilst
>> the code was refactored to not use sprintf (because of the risk of
>> buffer overruns).
>> 
>> The relevant section of code is the block of changes about 15 lines
>> from the bottom of this patch:
>> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2002-04/msg00029.html
> 
> Oops.  Thanks for the time you took to track down where the problem
> was introduced.

No problem. After my fun with hash tables, it was pleasantly trivial.


Max.


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