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Re: [Patch]: ld crash on i386/pe when linking with a dll that has no exports
On Nov 27, 2009, at 3:40 PM, Dave Korn wrote:
> Tristan Gingold wrote:
>
>> Ok, here is what I am checking. I think that comments are clarified.
>>
>> (Note: I think that the number of directory entries is always 16. But the
>> check is harmless).
>
> The number of directory entries is *usually* 16, but the spec explicitly
> allows it to be greater or fewer and warns that you must always validate
> everything against the header size and number of directory entries. So the
> check is definitely required and not just mostly harmless.
We then should be more careful in peXXigen.c because it always reads and converts 16 entries ;-)
Tristan.