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Re: [patch bfd]: Prevent possible buffer overflow on pdata-section sorting


2011/4/7 Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 08:15:42AM +0200, Kai Tietz wrote:
>> Hmm, not sure.
>
> Well, I'm 99% sure. :-) ?rawsize on an output section, if non-zero, is
> just a stale size at bfd_final_link.

So this 1% hits. I changed locally to use here just sec->size and I
found that pdata section doesn't get sorted proper anymore. (you can
verify this by objdump -x and it prints warnings about not ascending
data).

So I strictly want to stick here to my posted patch, as other
introduces regression.

Regards,
Kai


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