[PATCH] merge.c, don't pass null ptr to memcpy

[msnyder@sonic.net]

> On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 02:51:08PM -0700, msnyder@sonic.net wrote:
>> If alignment_power can't be zero, there's no use testing it.
>> If it can, we still need to allocate a pad buffer (albeit of
>> one byte), because it will be passed to bfd_bwrite and hence
>> to memcpy.
>
> No, if alignment_power is zero, then pad will not be used because all
> the pad lengths will be zero.  In fact, I think we are allocating one
> more byte than necessary since the pad lengths ought to be 0 to
> (1 << alignment_power) - 1.  I'll pre-approve a patch that changes
>   char *pad = NULL;
> to
>   char *pad = "";
> just to silence the warning.

I thought of that, but I can't do it -- it gets passed to free at return.