A question about display_archive in binutils

[Nan Xiao]

Hi Nick,

Thanks for your response!
Best Regards
Nan Xiao


On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 10:17 PM, Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi Nan Xiao,
>
>> Greetings from me!
>
> Hi! :-)
>
>> if (last_arfile != NULL)
>> -       bfd_close (last_arfile);
>> +       {
>> +         bfd_close (last_arfile);
>> +
>> +         /* PR 17512: file: a244edbc.  */
>> +         if (last_arfile == arfile)
>> +           return;
>> +       }
>>
>> I am a little confused why there will occur last_arfile is equal
>> to arfile. So it means bfd_openr_next_archived_file allocates the
>> same memory in 2 consecutive times?
>
> That is correct.  If the input file is a corrupt archive then it can
> confuse the code in bfd_openr_next_archived_file and so the same BFD
> can be returned multiple times.  Try running size or nm with the file
> referenced in the comment to see this happening.
>
> Cheers
>   Nick
>
>