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authorSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>2012-07-06 05:36:07 +0000
committerSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>2012-07-06 05:36:07 +0000
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treebba19e4695f13d82bc68beda30dc66cefcd2c5fd
parenta74bc5764616ecf97742696b679b8b917d522dc6 (diff)
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* cp-valprint.c (cp_print_value): Replace potentially unsafe
alloca with xmalloc/xfree.
-rw-r--r--gdb/ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--gdb/cp-valprint.c9
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 355c275..e432894 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
2012-07-06 Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>
+ Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
+
+ * cp-valprint.c (cp_print_value): Replace potentially unsafe
+ alloca with xmalloc/xfree.
+
+2012-07-06 Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>
* MAINTAINERS (Write After Approval): Add myself to the list.
diff --git a/gdb/cp-valprint.c b/gdb/cp-valprint.c
index 2e3beea..c066aa5 100644
--- a/gdb/cp-valprint.c
+++ b/gdb/cp-valprint.c
@@ -554,9 +554,11 @@ cp_print_value (struct type *type, struct type *real_type,
if ((boffset + offset) < 0
|| (boffset + offset) >= TYPE_LENGTH (real_type))
{
- /* FIXME (alloca): unsafe if baseclass is really
- really large. */
- gdb_byte *buf = alloca (TYPE_LENGTH (baseclass));
+ gdb_byte *buf;
+ struct cleanup *back_to;
+
+ buf = xmalloc (TYPE_LENGTH (baseclass));
+ back_to = make_cleanup (xfree, buf);
if (target_read_memory (address + boffset, buf,
TYPE_LENGTH (baseclass)) != 0)
@@ -568,6 +570,7 @@ cp_print_value (struct type *type, struct type *real_type,
boffset = 0;
thistype = baseclass;
base_valaddr = value_contents_for_printing_const (base_val);
+ do_cleanups (back_to);
}
else
{