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Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/elfread.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/elfread.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/elfread.c b/gdb/elfread.c index 270f93f..d607b87 100644 --- a/gdb/elfread.c +++ b/gdb/elfread.c @@ -790,8 +790,14 @@ elf_symfile_read (struct objfile *objfile, int symfile_flags) if (storage_needed > 0) { - dyn_symbol_table = (asymbol **) xmalloc (storage_needed); - make_cleanup (xfree, dyn_symbol_table); + /* Memory gets permanently referenced from ABFD after + bfd_get_synthetic_symtab so it must not get freed before ABFD gets. + It happens only in the case when elf_slurp_reloc_table sees + asection->relocation NULL. Determining which section is asection is + done by _bfd_elf_get_synthetic_symtab which is all a bfd + implementation detail, though. */ + + dyn_symbol_table = bfd_alloc (abfd, storage_needed); dynsymcount = bfd_canonicalize_dynamic_symtab (objfile->obfd, dyn_symbol_table); |