2007-07-26 Michael Snyder <msnyder@access-company.com>

	* syms.c (bfd_decode_symclass): Guard against NULL, since
	bfd_is_com_section dereferences the pointer.

diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index 45545f566807871bb65076958fd4a63147a88e87..9a2ce289c2a78244747f41868f26fd23136bc16e 100644 (file)
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2007-07-26  Michael Snyder  <msnyder@access-company.com>
 
+       * syms.c (bfd_decode_symclass): Guard against NULL, since 
+       bfd_is_com_section dereferences the pointer.
+
        * srec.c (srec_scan): Check for EOF (critical because return value
        will be used as array index).
 

diff --git a/bfd/syms.c b/bfd/syms.c
index ea50944491f87b443f5a39b899a6eb9343375fdd..9d425684d9039e6997185f3948c8b526459ab205 100644 (file)
--- a/bfd/syms.c
+++ b/bfd/syms.c
@@ -651,7 +651,7 @@ bfd_decode_symclass (asymbol *symbol)
 {
   char c;
 
-  if (bfd_is_com_section (symbol->section))
+  if (symbol->section && bfd_is_com_section (symbol->section))
     return 'C';
   if (bfd_is_und_section (symbol->section))
     {