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Subject: | RE: ordinal linking for cygwin ld |
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Date: | Sat, 27 Apr 2002 09:08:41 +1000 |
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From: | "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au> |
To: | "Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> |
Cc: | "Ralf Habacker" <Ralf DOT Habacker AT freenet DOT de>, |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu] > Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 9:04 AM > To: Robert Collins > Cc: Ralf Habacker; Kde-Cygwin; Binutils; Cygwin-Apps > Subject: Re: ordinal linking for cygwin ld > > > Robert Collins wrote: > > > > > The PE spec (as I read it) indicates that as long as a name is > > included (ie it's not link-only-by-ordinal) then ordinals > can change > > and nothing will break. > > > > It's only when the only link information is the ordinal > that problems > > will appear. > > > That's what I thought, too, until I got bit. Check the > cygwin(-apps?) > ml archives during spring/summer 2000. At the time, the > symptoms seemed > like a smoking gun: link by ordinal == link ONLY by ordinal. OTOH, > binutils on cygwin was royally broken at the time, DJ was > transitioning > away from cygwin, Mumit had been gone for half a year or > more, and bit > rot was setting in. Yup. I was part of that conversation too :}. > Perhaps the problems that burned me then were due to broken > binutils/maintainerless cygwin-gcc, and it wasn't the smoking gun I > thought it was. IIRC it was never conclusively identified. > OTOH, if you've linked by ordinal, and then you strip symbols > -- are the > names of the imports still retained? Search me. Rob (cygwin sortof-binutils maintainer-it-would-help-if-I-knew-these-things).
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