Subject: Re: what can link.exe do that cygwin32-ld can't ?
From: [email-masked] (Mikey)

13 Jul 1997 13:46:05 -0700
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Is this the fix?

| | *** gas/config/obj-coff.c~      Wed Dec 31 16:01:33 1969
| | --- gas/config/obj-coff.c       Sun Mar 23 14:20:52 1997
| | ***************
| | *** 3176,3183 ****
| | --- 3176,3185 ----
| |       {
| |         long size;
| | 
| | + #ifndef TE_PE
| |         segment_info[i].scnhdr.s_paddr = addr;
| |         segment_info[i].scnhdr.s_vaddr = addr;
| | + #endif
| | 
| |         if (segment_info[i].scnhdr.s_name[0])
| |         {
|

and if so, does this fix makeing .reloc dll's & exe's
with B18?

On Fri, 4 Jul 1997 00:34:11 -0400 (EDT), you wrote:

>In cygnus.gnu-win32 you write:
>
>>In the FAQ, under the heading
>>"Can I mix objects compiled with msvc++ and gcc?       "
>
>>it is said:  "The key seems to be using MS's LINK.EXE
>>to do the linking instead of GNU ld."
>
>>Could somebody enlighten me why that is the case? It prevents me from using a cross
>>compiler/linker.
>
>It's because the implementation of the PE format in the b18 release is
>incorrect.  PE appears to be like COFF, but, unfortunately, differs in
>a key respect: in PE, symbol values are section relative, whereas in
>COFF, symbol values are absolute addresses.
>
>I've corrected this in the development sources; they now generate
>correct PE files.  Unfortunately, this means that in the next cygwin
>release, everybody will have to rebuild their .o and .a files.
>
>Ian
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