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[Bug binutils/6743] PATCH COMMITTED: new variable for malloc

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Mon Jul 14 01:25:00 GMT 2008 
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 05:12:20PM -0700, Craig Silverstein wrote:
> It turns out a variable I thought would always point to the beginning
> of the malloc-block, can actually change value.  This was causing
> crashes in some cases.  I've fixed this by adding a new pointer, that
> always points to the malloc-location, so we can always free it safely.
> 
> I'm comitting this under the "obvious fix" principle.  This is
> probably the least obvious of the obvious fixes I've done so far, but
> I hope it still safely falls into that category.
> 
> craig
> 
> --cut here--
> 
> 2008-07-13  Craig Silverstein  <csilvers@google.com>
> 
> 	* dwarf2.c (struct dwarf2_debug): New variable info_ptr_memory.
> 	(find_line): Use info_ptr_memory instead of sec_info_ptr.
> 	(_bfd_dwarf2_cleanup_debug_info): Likewise.
> 
> 

Hi Craig,

Thanks for fixing both PR ld/6741 and PR binutils/6743. I added
those PRs in your ChangeLog entries.


H.J.
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