* somread.c (som_symtab_read): Avoid using alloca for potentially

large buffers.
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Joel Brobecker 2006-10-04 21:36:39 +00:00
parent d0a0254a41
commit f31b375174
2 changed files with 16 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
2006-10-04 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
* somread.c (som_symtab_read): Avoid using alloca for potentially
large buffers.
2006-10-04 Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com> 2006-10-04 Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
* arch-utils.h (gdbarch_info_fill): Remove duplicate prototype. * arch-utils.h (gdbarch_info_fill): Remove duplicate prototype.

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@ -88,15 +88,22 @@ som_symtab_read (bfd *abfd, struct objfile *objfile,
number_of_symbols = bfd_get_symcount (abfd); number_of_symbols = bfd_get_symcount (abfd);
/* FIXME (alloca): could be quite large. */ /* Allocate a buffer to read in the debug info.
buf = alloca (symsize * number_of_symbols); We avoid using alloca because the memory size could be so large
that we could hit the stack size limit. */
buf = xmalloc (symsize * number_of_symbols);
make_cleanup (xfree, buf);
bfd_seek (abfd, obj_som_sym_filepos (abfd), SEEK_SET); bfd_seek (abfd, obj_som_sym_filepos (abfd), SEEK_SET);
val = bfd_bread (buf, symsize * number_of_symbols, abfd); val = bfd_bread (buf, symsize * number_of_symbols, abfd);
if (val != symsize * number_of_symbols) if (val != symsize * number_of_symbols)
error (_("Couldn't read symbol dictionary!")); error (_("Couldn't read symbol dictionary!"));
/* FIXME (alloca): could be quite large. */ /* Allocate a buffer to read in the som stringtab section of
stringtab = alloca (obj_som_stringtab_size (abfd)); the debugging info. Again, we avoid using alloca because
the data could be so large that we could potentially hit
the stack size limitat. */
stringtab = xmalloc (obj_som_stringtab_size (abfd));
make_cleanup (xfree, stringtab);
bfd_seek (abfd, obj_som_str_filepos (abfd), SEEK_SET); bfd_seek (abfd, obj_som_str_filepos (abfd), SEEK_SET);
val = bfd_bread (stringtab, obj_som_stringtab_size (abfd), abfd); val = bfd_bread (stringtab, obj_som_stringtab_size (abfd), abfd);
if (val != obj_som_stringtab_size (abfd)) if (val != obj_som_stringtab_size (abfd))