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authorTom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>2018-10-25 09:00:52 -0600
committerTom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>2018-10-30 07:06:17 -0600
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Check return value of bfd_init
Alan recently added a way for BFD library users to check whether they were in fact loading a compatible version of BFD: https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2018-10/msg00198.html It seemed reasonable to me that gdb should do this check as well, in case someone is dynamically linking against BFD. Simon pointed out that an earlier version of the patch would cause a gdb crash if the test failed. This version works around this by lowering the call to bfd_init and adding a comment explaining where 'error' can safely be called in captured_main_1. gdb/ChangeLog 2018-10-30 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> * main.c (captured_main_1): Check return value of bfd_init.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/main.c')
-rw-r--r--gdb/main.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/main.c b/gdb/main.c
index 8709357..c71d5b5 100644
--- a/gdb/main.c
+++ b/gdb/main.c
@@ -506,7 +506,6 @@ captured_main_1 (struct captured_main_args *context)
textdomain (PACKAGE);
#endif
- bfd_init ();
notice_open_fds ();
saved_command_line = (char *) xstrdup ("");
@@ -517,12 +516,17 @@ captured_main_1 (struct captured_main_args *context)
setvbuf (stderr, NULL, _IONBF, BUFSIZ);
#endif
+ /* Note: `error' cannot be called before this point, because the
+ caller will crash when trying to print the exception. */
main_ui = new ui (stdin, stdout, stderr);
current_ui = main_ui;
gdb_stdtargerr = gdb_stderr; /* for moment */
gdb_stdtargin = gdb_stdin; /* for moment */
+ if (bfd_init () != BFD_INIT_MAGIC)
+ error (_("fatal error: libbfd ABI mismatch"));
+
#ifdef __MINGW32__
/* On Windows, argv[0] is not necessarily set to absolute form when
GDB is found along PATH, without which relocation doesn't work. */