Fix for bfd/dwarf1.c
Will Cohen
wcohen@redhat.com
Wed Oct 4 06:03:00 GMT 2000
Alan Modra wrote:
>
> 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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Those field were not being zeroed as expected on winNT.
I will take another look.
-Will
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