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Hello,

>> it bails because opera's eh->e_shnum is 15850 which is significantly
>> larger than 1024.
>
> See elf(5):
>
>      e_shnum      The number of entries in the section header table, 
> or 0 if
>                   none exists.
Just found the same reading the source :)

>> So - what's the purpose of this field in the ELF header? Why bail if
>> it's >1024?
>
> You should take this to tech-kern, I guess. The number of section 
> headers
> typically is something like 25, readelf -S tells you about them, maybe 
> we
> can guess from the output for opera why a program would be linked that 
> way.
Hmm, objdump lists indeed >15000 section headers on the opera binary.

> I guess the kernel check for 1024 is just an arbitrary sanity check - 
> and
> maybe it needs to be lifted or removed.
I set the limit to 16000 and now it works - sort of. The GUI looks 
totally screwed but that's another problem.

have fun
Michael
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