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diff --git a/gdb/utils.c b/gdb/utils.c
index 24a2819..b2a1d18 100644
--- a/gdb/utils.c
+++ b/gdb/utils.c
@@ -2704,31 +2704,64 @@ string_to_core_addr (const char *my_string)
char *
gdb_realpath (const char *filename)
{
+ /* Method 1: The system has a compile time upper bound on a filename
+ path. Use that and realpath() to canonicalize the name. This is
+ the most common case. Note that, if there isn't a compile time
+ upper bound, you want to avoid realpath() at all costs. */
#if defined(HAVE_REALPATH)
+ {
# if defined (PATH_MAX)
- char buf[PATH_MAX];
+ char buf[PATH_MAX];
# define USE_REALPATH
# elif defined (MAXPATHLEN)
- char buf[MAXPATHLEN];
-# define USE_REALPATH
-# elif defined (HAVE_UNISTD_H) && defined(HAVE_ALLOCA)
- char *buf = alloca ((size_t)pathconf ("/", _PC_PATH_MAX));
+ char buf[MAXPATHLEN];
# define USE_REALPATH
# endif
+# if defined (USE_REALPATH)
+ char *rp = realpath (filename, buf);
+ if (rp == NULL)
+ rp = filename;
+ return xstrdup (rp);
+ }
+# endif
#endif /* HAVE_REALPATH */
-#if defined(USE_REALPATH)
- char *rp = realpath (filename, buf);
- return xstrdup (rp ? rp : filename);
-#elif defined(HAVE_CANONICALIZE_FILE_NAME)
- char *rp = canonicalize_file_name (filename);
- if (rp == NULL)
- return xstrdup (filename);
- else
- return rp;
-#else
- return xstrdup (filename);
+ /* Method 2: The host system (i.e., GNU) has the function
+ canonicalize_file_name() which malloc's a chunk of memory and
+ returns that, use that. */
+#if defined(HAVE_CANONICALIZE_FILE_NAME)
+ {
+ char *rp = canonicalize_file_name (filename);
+ if (rp == NULL)
+ return xstrdup (filename);
+ else
+ return rp;
+ }
#endif
+
+ /* Method 3: Now we're getting desperate! The system doesn't have a
+ compile time buffer size and no alternative function. Query the
+ OS, using pathconf(), for the buffer limit. Care is needed
+ though, some systems do not limit PATH_MAX (return -1 for
+ pathconf()) making it impossible to pass a correctly sized buffer
+ to realpath() (it could always overflow). On those systems, we
+ skip this. */
+#if defined (HAVE_REALPATH) && defined (HAVE_UNISTD_H) && defined(HAVE_ALLOCA)
+ {
+ /* Find out the max path size. */
+ long path_max = pathconf ("/", _PC_PATH_MAX);
+ if (path_max > 0)
+ {
+ /* PATH_MAX is bounded. */
+ char *buf = alloca (path_max);
+ char *rp = realpath (filename, buf);
+ return xstrdup (rp ? rp : filename);
+ }
+ }
+#endif
+
+ /* This system is a lost cause, just dup the buffer. */
+ return xstrdup (filename);
}
/* Return a copy of FILENAME, with its directory prefix canonicalized