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[PATCH] dereferencing a freed pointer

From: msnyder at sonic dot net
To: binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:58:41 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [PATCH] dereferencing a freed pointer

Flagged by Coverity.  If we don't set the pointer to NULL after calling
bfd_stringtab_free, it may get called twice, in which case it will
dereference a freed pointer.

Unlikely perhaps, but possible.

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