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authorNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2022-08-22 11:15:40 +0100
committerNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2022-08-22 11:15:40 +0100
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Have readelf warn users if it is asked to decode a LLVM bitcode file or a golang object file.
* readelf.c (check_magic_number): New function. Checks the magic bytes at the start of a file. If they are not the ELF format magic values, then attempts to generate a helpful error message. (process_file_header): Call check_magic_number.
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+2022-08-22 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
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+ * readelf.c (check_magic_number): New function. Checks the magic
+ bytes at the start of a file. If they are not the ELF format
+ magic values, then attempts to generate a helpful error message.
+ (process_file_header): Call check_magic_number.
+
2022-08-09 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
PR 29457