Revert bfd_get_size checks
Nicholas Clifton
nickc@redhat.com
Thu Nov 6 14:43:00 GMT 2014
Hi Alan,
> I think we should revert all of these bfd_get_size checks, given the
> number of errors they have introduced, and that it's better to allow a
> malloc, seek or read failure on a corrupt file than penalize good
> files with a stat. Nick?
OK, *sigh*. I introduced the checks in order to produce more helpful
error messages when the BFD library encounters a corrupt file. At least
that was the plan. It obviously has not worked out so well.
I have already checked in one patch to revert some of the checks. Feel
free to revert the rest of them though. I will rerun the binutils
against all of the corrupt binaries afterwards and see if any real
failures pop up.
Cheers
Nick
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