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Re: [PATCH RFA?] solib.c hack


On Oct 26, 12:47am, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> > I found that the following hack was needed for to get gdb to run a
> > program on i586-sco-sysv5uw7.1.0.  It seems to me that the real
> > problem could be in the toolchain which generated the executable, but
> > I also think that it's not unreasonable to place a limit on the value
> > that ``storage_needed'' can take on.
> > 
> > Okay to apply?
> > 
> > (I have misgivings about this patch myself, so I'll understand if it's
> > rejected.)
> 
> Its really a shared library maintainer question however, shouldn't BFD
> be the thing that is responsible for ensuring that the value returned is
> correct?  Now a days 6mb isn't that much.

Yeah.  Michael Snyder had the same observation regarding BFD returning
the correct value.

I withdraw this patch from consideration.

Kevin

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