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From: "Dmitry Timoshkov" <dmitry AT baikal DOT ru>
To: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: binutils auto-import bug
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 22:12:55 +0900
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"Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> 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.

Did you try to use different compiler/linker? For instance from MIcrosoft
or Borland? How do they behave in your tests?

--
Dmitry.



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