pb malloc BFD

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From: Pierre Willard
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 22:33

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The BFD library (binutils-2.0) contains some calls
to the malloc function without testing of the result.

In particular in bfd/seclet.c :

     char *d = malloc(seclet->size);

Should be replaced by :

     char *d = bfd_xmalloc(seclet->size);

regards
Pierre Willard

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