From 6d7ace559f2206ef3f72446a5e45734194ba0483 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Kurtz <ryanmkurtz@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2026 11:18:42 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] GP-7124: MotorolaHexLoader parsing improvement

---
 .../main/java/ghidra/app/util/opinion/MotorolaHexLoader.java  | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Ghidra/Features/Base/src/main/java/ghidra/app/util/opinion/MotorolaHexLoader.java b/Ghidra/Features/Base/src/main/java/ghidra/app/util/opinion/MotorolaHexLoader.java
index 3a8bb35ee5..c507350033 100644
--- a/Ghidra/Features/Base/src/main/java/ghidra/app/util/opinion/MotorolaHexLoader.java
+++ b/Ghidra/Features/Base/src/main/java/ghidra/app/util/opinion/MotorolaHexLoader.java
@@ -77,10 +77,12 @@ public class MotorolaHexLoader extends AbstractProgramLoader {
 	}
 
 	static boolean isPossibleHexFile(ByteProvider provider) {
+		final int MAX_BLANK_LINES = 100;
 		try (BoundedBufferedReader reader =
 			new BoundedBufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(provider.getInputStream(0)))) {
+			int i = 0;
 			String line = reader.readLine();
-			while (line.matches("^\\s*$")) {
+			while (i++ < MAX_BLANK_LINES && line.isBlank()) {
 				line = reader.readLine();
 			}
 			return line.matches("^[S:][0-9a-fA-F]+$");