diff --git a/debug/gosym/pclntab.go b/debug/gosym/pclntab.go
index ffa1bf5..1ca6c88 100644
--- a/debug/gosym/pclntab.go
+++ b/debug/gosym/pclntab.go
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ import (
 	"bytes"
 	"encoding/binary"
 	"fmt"
-	"math"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 	"sync"
@@ -352,8 +351,9 @@ func (t *LineTable) go12Funcs() []Func {
 	}
 
 	// avoid OOM error on corrupt binaries
+	// empirically gathered. Most binaries are <= UINT16_MAX, but some truly huge have >= 100000 functions
 	ft := t.funcTab()
-	if ft.Count() >= math.MaxUint16 {
+	if ft.Count() >= 350000 {
 		return make([]Func, 1)
 	}
 
diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index f98b360..b357a02 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -167,9 +167,10 @@ func main_impl(fileName string, printStdPkgs bool, printFilePaths bool, printTyp
 		}
 	}
 
+	var knownPclntabVA = uint64(0)
 	var knownGoTextBase = uint64(0)
 restartParseWithRealTextBase:
-	tabs, err := file.PCLineTable(versionOverride, knownGoTextBase)
+	tabs, err := file.PCLineTable(versionOverride, knownPclntabVA, knownGoTextBase)
 	if err != nil {
 		return ExtractMetadata{}, fmt.Errorf("failed to read pclntab: %w", err)
 	}
@@ -223,10 +224,10 @@ restartParseWithRealTextBase:
 				stomppedMagicMetaConstraintsValid = tab.StompMagicCandidateMeta.SuspectedModuleDataVa == tmpModData.VA
 			}
 
-			if knownGoTextBase == 0 && stomppedMagicMetaConstraintsValid {
+			if knownGoTextBase == 0 && knownPclntabVA == 0 && stomppedMagicMetaConstraintsValid {
 				// assign real base and restart pclntab parsing with correct VAs!
-				// TODO: optimize, we should only restart pclntab parsing of the candidates we know find a moduledata
 				knownGoTextBase = tmpModData.TextVA
+				knownPclntabVA = tab.PclntabVA
 				goto restartParseWithRealTextBase
 			}
 
diff --git a/main_test.go b/main_test.go
index 23e67e1..3343edd 100644
--- a/main_test.go
+++ b/main_test.go
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ func TestWeirdBins(t *testing.T) {
 	})
 
 	t.Run("fmtisfun_macho", func(t *testing.T) {
-		testSymbolRecovery(t, "fmtisfun_macho", 0x10be128, 0x1109260, 0x10879b0)
+		testSymbolRecovery(t, "fmtisfun_macho", 0x10be140, 0x1109260, 0x10879b0)
 	})
 
 	t.Run("fmtisfun_win", func(t *testing.T) {