--- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com 2008-02-25 10:23
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Hi Alan,
> What is the point of the patch in comment #1? If we fail a realloc we are
> shortly going to exit with an error.
Not necessarily. It is possible whatever was being attempted at the time will
be abort
tag 360268 patch upstream
forwarded 360268 bug-binutils@gnu.org
thanks
#360268 - binutils: please document ranlib -t
http://bugs.debian.org./360268
ranlib is ar.o compiled with an "is_ranlib" variable initialized.
ranlib -t calls only ranlib_touch.
--- binutils.texi.orig 2008-02-25 19:44:04.000