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Re: Your infinite-readelf patch caused regressions
- From: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>
- To: Nicholas Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:15:37 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Your infinite-readelf patch caused regressions
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On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, Nicholas Clifton wrote:
> Hi Hans-Peter,
>
> > Not sure why the infinite-loop test triggers.
>
> It is because those particular tests are running "readelf -a", so the version
> information in the binaries is being dumped.
Ah, and the "-a" was *mostly* due to my laziness and apparently
there was no generic test-case covering dumping version info
without any present. Score one for laziness! :)
brgds, H-P