From: Christopher C Chimelis <chris@beezer.med.miami.edu>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com>
Cc: hjl@lucon.org, bfd@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: A patch for elf.c
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 11:34:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981208143408.10045A-100000@beezer.med.miami.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199812081926.OAA17039@subrogation.cygnus.com>
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> This bug was reported on bug-gnu-utils. I believe I have already
> fixed this problem with the appended patch.
>
> We've disagreed before on whether memory should be cleared when it is
> allocated, and I think we will continue to disagree. This was a bug
> introduced with a change to the function a few months ago. The fix is
> to avoid introducing bugs; clearing memory is just treating the
> symptom.
I'll try both in turn and see. If Ian's patch is effective, then I'll
stick to it. Thanks to both of you for this :-)
C
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-12-08 11:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.3.96.981208082500.26204A-100000@beezer.med.miami.edu>
1998-12-08 9:57 ` H.J. Lu
1998-12-08 10:28 ` Christopher C Chimelis
1998-12-08 11:26 ` Ian Lance Taylor
1998-12-08 11:34 ` Christopher C Chimelis [this message]
1998-12-09 7:42 ` H.J. Lu
1998-12-09 8:04 ` Roland McGrath
1998-12-09 9:35 ` Ian Lance Taylor
1998-12-09 10:03 ` Jeffrey A Law
1998-12-09 16:27 ` Stan Shebs
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