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From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Subject: Re: bin/7980: New ld buggy!
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The following reply was made to PR bin/7980; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To: Joakim Henriksson <murduth@ludd.luth.se>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/7980: New ld buggy!
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 14:40:39 +0100 (BST)

 Please try this patch to src/contrib/binutils/bfd which at least fixes the
 test case in the bug report:
 
 Index: elflink.h
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/contrib/binutils/bfd/elflink.h,v
 retrieving revision 1.1.1.2
 diff -u -r1.1.1.2 elflink.h
 --- elflink.h	1998/09/06 22:57:08	1.1.1.2
 +++ elflink.h	1998/09/19 10:18:46
 @@ -719,12 +719,14 @@
  		}
  
  	      sz = bfd_section_size (abfd, s);
 -	      msg = (char *) bfd_alloc (abfd, sz);
 +	      msg = (char *) bfd_alloc (abfd, sz+1);
  	      if (msg == NULL)
  		goto error_return;
  
  	      if (! bfd_get_section_contents (abfd, s, msg, (file_ptr) 0, sz))
  		goto error_return;
 +
 +	      msg[sz] = '\0';
  
  	      if (! (_bfd_generic_link_add_one_symbol
  		     (info, abfd, name, BSF_WARNING, s, (bfd_vma) 0, msg,
 
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