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Diffstat (limited to 'bfd/elf32-sparc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | bfd/elf32-sparc.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/bfd/elf32-sparc.c b/bfd/elf32-sparc.c index 0029384..1dd0351 100644 --- a/bfd/elf32-sparc.c +++ b/bfd/elf32-sparc.c @@ -1019,7 +1019,12 @@ elf32_sparc_size_dynamic_sections (output_bfd, info) } /* Allocate memory for the section contents. */ - s->contents = (bfd_byte *) bfd_alloc (dynobj, s->_raw_size); + /* FIXME: This should be a call to bfd_alloc not bfd_zalloc. + Unused entries should be reclaimed before the section's contents + are written out, but at the moment this does not happen. Thus in + order to prevent writing out garbage, we initialise the section's + contents to zero. */ + s->contents = (bfd_byte *) bfd_zalloc (dynobj, s->_raw_size); if (s->contents == NULL && s->_raw_size != 0) return false; } |