[Bug binutils/11513] New: Garbage is loaded into asection#lineno

[dzidzitop at lavabit dot com]

For dward and coff symbol tables (generated by MinGW 4.4.0) the BFD library
loads garbage into the symbol table into asymbol#lineno array.
For instance, 30701 as a line_number and 0 as an offset (or symbol pointer).
This happens for any program.

In addition, there is no way to distinguish when alent.u.sym should be used and
when alent.u.offset.

Symtable initialisation code (for already initialised abfd):
static void slurp_symtab(bfd* const abfd)
{
        long storage;
        bool dynamic = false;
                if ((bfd_get_file_flags(abfd) & HAS_SYMS) == 0) {
                return;
        }

        storage = bfd_get_symtab_upper_bound(abfd);
        if (storage == 0) {
                storage = bfd_get_dynamic_symtab_upper_bound(abfd);
                dynamic = false;
        }
        if (storage < 0) {
                //bfd_fatal (bfd_get_filename (abfd));
        }
                syms = (asymbol**) malloc(storage);
        if (dynamic) {
                symCount = bfd_canonicalize_dynamic_symtab(abfd, syms);
        }
        else {
                symCount = bfd_canonicalize_symtab(abfd, syms);
        }
        if (symCount < 0) {
                //bfd_fatal (bfd_get_filename (abfd));
        }
}

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           Summary: Garbage is loaded into asection#lineno
           Product: binutils
           Version: 2.21 (HEAD)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: binutils
        AssignedTo: unassigned at sources dot redhat dot com
        ReportedBy: dzidzitop at lavabit dot com
                CC: bug-binutils at gnu dot org


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11513

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