Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-apps-owner AT cygwin DOT com List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-apps-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com> List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/> List-Post: <mailto:cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com> List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-apps-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#faqs> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com From: "Ralf Habacker" <Ralf DOT Habacker AT freenet DOT de> To: "Ralf Habacker" <Ralf DOT Habacker AT freenet DOT de>, <kde-cygwin AT mail DOT kde DOT org>, "Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> Cc: "Binutils" <binutils AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>, "Cygwin-Apps" <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com> Subject: RE: ordinal linking for cygwin ld Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 19:08:54 +0200 Message-ID: <002301c1eed7$604812c0$d36707d5@BRAMSCHE> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 In-Reply-To: <FC169E059D1A0442A04C40F86D9BA7600C5F47@itdomain003.itdomain.net.au> Importance: Normal > Ok, I see what it does. Doesn't it have to do that for each reference to > the auto-imported variable? For each auto-imported variable an IMAGE_IMPORT_DESCRIPTOR and an IMPORT_THUNK_DATA element is necessary. > If so, then heavy use of an imported variable could make the > INT and IAT quite large - and lots of fixups > needed. Yes, these are the costs.