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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Jason Tishler" <jason AT tishler DOT net>,
   "Ralf Habacker" <Ralf DOT Habacker AT freenet DOT de>
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Subject: Re: rebase addon - Bas and Size listing of dll's without rebasing
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 11:06:35 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Tishler" <jason AT tishler DOT net>
> After the above is completed, then I would entertain adding such an
> option if the community deemed it appropriate.  But, wouldn't
> implementing it via ReBaseImage()'s fReBase parameter as opposed to
> plucking certain bytes out of the executable be a better approach?  I
> presume that this is how MS implements their '-s' (just sum image
range)
> option.

IMO we should be using bfd not the MS helper libraries - in the long
term. Otherwise one cannot do any of this as part of a cross compile or
cross-manipulation toolkit.

Rob


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