Re: [patch+7.4] reread.exp 7.3->7.4 regression

Jan Kratochvil
2011-12-19T10:23:15Z

On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:54:27 +0100, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> I think this problem ties us with the problem Tom was trying to
> figure out, where BFD opens and closes bfd's without telling us.

Not sure if you refer to Tom's pointing at bfd/cache.c and its

/* The maximum number of files which the cache will keep open at one time. */
#define BFD_CACHE_MAX_OPEN 10

which possibly negatively affects performance in GNU/Linux but it closes only
bfd->iostream, not bfd itself. The problem of this mail thread occurs due to
bfd->section_count changes. Therefore I find it as an unrelated issue.

Thanks,
Jan