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Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 12:54:30 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: rebase addon - Bas and Size listing of dll's without rebasing
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On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 12:50:07PM +0100, Ralf Habacker wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jason Tishler [mailto:jason AT tishler DOT net]
>> On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 09:08:49PM +0100, Ralf Habacker wrote:
>> > On analysing this problem I added an option "-l" to the rebase tool to
>> > list dll's imagebase and -size without rebasing. It's very interesting
>> > to see how MS chooses there Imagebase.
>>
>> What about the following alternative solution:
>>
>>     $ objdump -p foo.dll | egrep '(ImageBase|SizeOfImage)'
>>     ImageBase               68000000
>>     SizeOfImage             0003f000
>
>Try it with a recent objdump and a dll with auto-import variables and you will see that
>objdump crashes. :-(

Seems to work fine with the distributed version of binutils.  I tried
this with cygncurses6.dll.

Regardless, if there is a problem in objdump then it obviously needs to
be fixed.  Adding an option to some other program because objdump is broken
is not the way to approach this, IMO.

cgf

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