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| author | Joel Brobecker <brobecker@gnat.com> | 2006-10-04 21:36:39 +0000 |
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| committer | Joel Brobecker <brobecker@gnat.com> | 2006-10-04 21:36:39 +0000 |
| commit | f31b3751745fb4e229e571e25ece906194efc52f (patch) | |
| tree | 374dfc41941d260375e40eb0cc4617572e6aac31 /gdb/somread.c | |
| parent | d0a0254a41e72228a60fe0d3e1044f746d8e56ab (diff) | |
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* somread.c (som_symtab_read): Avoid using alloca for potentially
large buffers.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/somread.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/somread.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/somread.c b/gdb/somread.c index c187d13..f17094d 100644 --- a/gdb/somread.c +++ b/gdb/somread.c @@ -88,15 +88,22 @@ som_symtab_read (bfd *abfd, struct objfile *objfile, number_of_symbols = bfd_get_symcount (abfd); - /* FIXME (alloca): could be quite large. */ - buf = alloca (symsize * number_of_symbols); + /* Allocate a buffer to read in the debug info. + 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); val = bfd_bread (buf, symsize * number_of_symbols, abfd); if (val != symsize * number_of_symbols) error (_("Couldn't read symbol dictionary!")); - /* FIXME (alloca): could be quite large. */ - stringtab = alloca (obj_som_stringtab_size (abfd)); + /* Allocate a buffer to read in the som stringtab section of + 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); val = bfd_bread (stringtab, obj_som_stringtab_size (abfd), abfd); if (val != obj_som_stringtab_size (abfd)) |