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Re: PATCH: segfault in bfd with large static binary

Hi H. J.

p_paddr
    On systems for which physical addressing is relevant, this member
    is reserved for the segment's physical address. Because System V
    ignores physical addressing for application programs, this member
    has unspecified contents for executable files and shared objects.

We should never check it for System V based systems.

Ok - so presumably what we need is another elf backend flag to tell us whether or not we should pay attention to the p_paddr field, yes ? Then we have to make sure that we set this flag correctly for all the different ELF targets we currently support and then modify the current code to ignore p_paddr when it is not supported. Right ?

Cheers
  Nick


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