Misinterpreted FILE note for 32bit core files in readelf

Mark Wielaard mjw at redhat.com
Mon Apr 14 13:28:29 UTC 2014


On Mon, 2014-04-14 at 14:57 +0200, Petr Machata wrote:
> Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > The trouble is indeed that buf_read_ulong passes 8 as size to convert
> > while the size of a long in the core file is 4. The attached patch
> > fixes this and adds an explicit testcase for a i686 core file. CCed
> > Petr who originally added the support to double check I didn't
> > misinterpret the intention of buf_read_ulong calling convert.
> 
> I don't have any particular memories of that code anymore, but after
> looking into it anew, your patch looks reasonable.  Please apply.

Thanks. Pushed to master.



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