From: ian AT cygnus DOT com (Ian Lance Taylor)
Subject: Re: ld -r (relocatable link)
8 Apr 1998 19:30:19 -0700
Message-ID: <199804090224.WAA02770.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@subrogation.cygnus.com>
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To: jeffdb AT goodnet DOT com
Cc: simon AT octanttech-nospam DOT com, cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

   From: jeffdbREMOVETHIS AT goodnet DOT com (Mikey)
   Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 01:35:58 GMT

   I have been meaning to take a look at this,
   one Idea I had was to try a linker script for
   -r that moved .idata (and possibly .edata) into /DISCARD/
   I believe that .idata is a large part of the reason
   -r dosen't work.

ld -r is already fixed in the binutils development code.  The fix will
be in the upcoming binutils 2.9 release.

Part of the fix was to not put .idata$x in .idata when using -r.
Discard the .idata$x sections would be incorrect.

Ian