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| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/rs6000-nat.c | 3 |
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diff --git a/gdb/rs6000-nat.c b/gdb/rs6000-nat.c index 12229cd..94daaff 100644 --- a/gdb/rs6000-nat.c +++ b/gdb/rs6000-nat.c @@ -407,6 +407,9 @@ child_xfer_memory (CORE_ADDR memaddr, char *myaddr, int len, / sizeof (int); /* Allocate word transfer buffer. */ + /* FIXME (alloca): This code, cloned from infptrace.c, is unsafe + because it uses alloca to allocate a buffer of arbitrary size. + For very large xfers, this could crash GDB's stack. */ int *buf = (int *) alloca (count * sizeof (int)); int arch64 = ARCH64 (); |