Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Ralf Habacker" To: , Cc: Subject: RE: !RE: [PATCH] gcc3/ld patch for direct-linking-to-dll andauto-importsupport Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 13:52:01 +0200 Message-ID: <00b401c376c8$c7c52a30$0a1c440a@BRAMSCHE> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal In-Reply-To: <20030908085820.96366.qmail@web21410.mail.yahoo.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 Importance: Normal > > > I've tried that with your testcase and it seems to work. > > > > > What gcc release you are using ? > > I tested with mingw builds of 3.3.1 and last weeks GCC-head (3.4). They put > readonly data into .rdata$ sections if -fdata-sections but in .text otherwise. > You're correct, though, it is is different in 3.2.x > > > It seems that gcc3.2 (which is the recent > > cygwin release) does not support this. (See the ! below) > > Are there any other gcc options to archive this ? > > Not that I know of. A -mrdata-in-rdata :) switch would be handy. > What should we do ? 1. wait until gcc 3.3 is in the cygwin net distribution and forgot this patch. 2. Apply this patch as it is. 3. Extend this patch with .rdata$ support like you have done and apply this all to ensure propper working for current and further gcc3 release. I would prefer solution 3. Any objectivies ? Ralf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/