[Bug binutils/22246] memory allocation failure

[amodra at gmail dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22246

Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |amodra at gmail dot com
         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX

--- Comment #2 from Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com> ---
The difficulty in doing anything about this class of bug is that objdump and
other binutils can't make a decision on what constitutes an unreasonable
section size.  We tried testing against file size but that doesn't work.  Some
formats encode section contents; For those you can easily have a section of
size greater than the total object file size.

So we have to trust that the operating system will behave gracefully if objdump
asks for a very large memory buffer.

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