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Re: [gdb patch+7.6] Fix bfd close regression wrt PR binutils/14813
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- To: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:42:36 +0930
- Subject: Re: [gdb patch+7.6] Fix bfd close regression wrt PR binutils/14813
- References: <20130409081020 dot GA3544 at host2 dot jankratochvil dot net>
On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 10:10:20AM +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> Hi,
>
> there were BFD patches:
> PATCH: PR binutils/14813: Wrong return type for opncls_bclose
> http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2012-11/msg00074.html
> Message-ID: <20121107003007.GA8682@gmail.com>
> +
> pr14813 revisted
> http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2013-01/msg00194.html
> Message-ID: <20130114131458.GK3244@bubble.grove.modra.org>
>
> where bfd_iovec->bclose return value has been fixed across bfd/ . But GDB in
> some cases expected the incorrect behavior which regressed it.
Mea culpa. I asked HJ to check gdb sources when reviewing his patch,
then didn't do the same myself!
--
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM