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Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 21:22:25 +0200
From: Christian Franke <Christian DOT Franke AT t-online DOT de>
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Subject: binutils feature request: ld --disable-large-address-aware option
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A few programs are not compatible with --large-address-aware which is 
enabled by default in current x86 ld. For example cdrkit, dvd+rw-tools 
and smartmontools use IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THROUGH_DIRECT which apparently 
requires user buffers below 2GiB.

Using "LDFLAGS=-Wl,--disable-large-address-aware" would be much easier 
than adding an extra Cygwin specific "peflags --bigaddr=false *.exe" 
post-build step.

(http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-04/msg00342.html :-)

Thanks,
Christian


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