Landing: 1eae9f3bb7ea
Project / Subsystem
binutils / binutils
Date
2026-08-27
Author
Alan Modra <amodra@sourceware.org>
Commit
1eae9f3bb7eae31d1fbc5663dae13973a52da61a
Source
public_inbox
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- Remove arbitrary size limit for decompressed DWO sections
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- Binutils readelf no longer imposes an arbitrary limit on decompressed DWO section sizes.
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- Alan Modra <amodra@sourceware.org>
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- • bugfix
- • dwarf
- • debugging
- • readelf
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- public_inbox:binutils#34481
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- 2026-08-27T00:00:00.000Z
This commit removes the arbitrary limit on the uncompressed size of DWO sections in binutils/readelf.c and the sanity check for compressed sections in bfd/section.c. This addresses issues where excessively large, but valid, decompressed debug strings in DWO files would exceed the previous ten times file size limit, preventing proper processing.