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authorNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2000-08-21 23:42:56 +0000
committerNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2000-08-21 23:42:56 +0000
commit4312772e904497af1e484bb8a4aa35ca8be98607 (patch)
tree96eb4f7b0900fac86be7219144d46ed56af5eb5e /bfd/elf32-i386.c
parentc26b87fc09c67eeaeaa3e027f15e2187b7dd5108 (diff)
downloadgdb-4312772e904497af1e484bb8a4aa35ca8be98607.tar.gz
Zero out the dynamic allocated content space. Add a comment to remind us that
one day this ought to be fixed.
Diffstat (limited to 'bfd/elf32-i386.c')
-rw-r--r--bfd/elf32-i386.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/bfd/elf32-i386.c b/bfd/elf32-i386.c
index ace82876df9..bed03150921 100644
--- a/bfd/elf32-i386.c
+++ b/bfd/elf32-i386.c
@@ -1198,7 +1198,12 @@ elf_i386_size_dynamic_sections (output_bfd, info)
}
/* Allocate memory for the section contents. */
- s->contents = (bfd_byte *) bfd_alloc (dynobj, s->_raw_size);
+ /* FIXME: This should be a call to bfd_alloc not bfd_zalloc.
+ Unused entries should be reclaimed before the section's contents
+ are written out, but at the moment this does not happen. Thus in
+ order to prevent writing out garbage, we initialise the section's
+ contents to zero. */
+ s->contents = (bfd_byte *) bfd_zalloc (dynobj, s->_raw_size);
if (s->contents == NULL && s->_raw_size != 0)
return false;
}