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Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 02:34:22 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: binutils auto-import bug
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Charles Wilson wrote:


> The reason for the quotation marks is: Paul's patch doesn't actually fix 
> the bug.  It just detects the condition that *causes* the bug, prints a 
> diagnostic message, and exits with error.

Oh, one other thing: this is *meant* as an interim step towards actually 
*fixing* the bug.  But, because of certain idiosyncracies of the windows 
dynamic loader, detection-and-prevention, as in the current patch, MAY 
be the best we can do.

It isn't yet clear.

--Chuck


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