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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 23:04:59 -0400
From: Li-Kai Liu <news AT likai DOT net>
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Subject: Re: [BUG] cygwin-1.3.3-2 -- making auto-import dlls
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>AFAIK Relocated .dll's will never push a .dll with a different base
>address out of the way. I.E. For that set of .dll's
>
>the program will get it's address 0x10000000, cygwin1.dll get's its base
>address, and the 5 .dll's get 5 other random address's.
>
>How is it better? With a .dll that conflicts with cygwin1.dll, it's boom
>(everytime) :].
>

comment by a random passer by (me):

perhaps someone will just end up writing a process loader for cygwin 
that interacts directly with NtNnnn API (and stop supporting Win9x at 
once!), and so we can start supporting object formats such as ELF with 
our own freedom. i'm kind of sick about trying to fit the light-weight 
shared objects in GnuPG to fit into the massively bloated DLL model ...

ah, it is so hard to be a nice person ... trying to be able to work with 
multitudes of challenge ... win98, winnt, win2k and winxp all have 
different tempers!

----

okay, pretend as if i never said that. :-)

liulk



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