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From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
To: brobecker@adacore.com
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFA/HPUX] somread.c: avoid stack overflow
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 19:32:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610041932.k94JWBpG012851@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061004182505.GH23247@adacore.com> (message from Joel Brobecker 	on Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:25:05 -0700)

> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:25:05 -0700
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> 
> Hello,
> 
> A customer of ours ran into a GDB crash that was caused by a stack
> overflow. Their executables are very large, and it turned out when
> we started debugging that the overflow happened during an alloca
> besides which there already was a FIXME:.
> 
> We replace the calls to alloca by a call to xmalloc followed by
> make_cleanup and the problem was gone.
> 
> 2006-10-04  Joel Brobecker  <brobecker@adacore.com>
> 
>         * somread.c (som_symtab_read): Avoid using alloca for potentially
>         large buffers.
> 
> Tested on pa-hpux, no regression.
> 
> OK to commit?

Looks reasonable to me.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-04 19:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-04 18:25 Joel Brobecker
2006-10-04 19:32 ` Mark Kettenis [this message]
2006-10-04 21:38   ` Joel Brobecker

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