My Monday morning moans - malformed macho

[Richard L. Hamilton]

While someone who can speak authoritatively needs to confirm this, the name certainly suggests a Mach-O (Mac's object file format) executable that's purposely malformed as test data for routines that manipulate object files.  As such, it probably _should_ be corrupt, and is probably not cause for concern.


> On Mar 10, 2019, at 18:20, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> 
> Old MacBook (March 2010), latest Macports etc.
> 
> Been getting this for a while, in my regular "port upgrade outdated":
> 
>    --->  Scanning binaries for linking errors
>    Warning: Error parsing file /opt/local/lib/go/src/cmd/vendor/github.com/google/pprof/internal/binutils/testdata/malformed_macho: Premature end of data, possibly corrupt file
> 
> Should I be concerned?  I don't have a clue what "malformed_macho" is, and I've spent far too much of my life in debugging other peoples' software.
> 
> -- Dave
>