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Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 20:40:04 +1200
From: Bill Currie <bill AT taniwha DOT tssc DOT co DOT nz>
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Subject: Re: Can the text section be made read-only?
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Bill Currie wrote:
> As to the locking issue, now that my ASM_OUTPUT_SECTION_NAME patch to
> go32.h is in mainstream gcc (2.8.1 definitely, don't know about 2.8.0),
> can I suggest using .ltext and .ldata sections (and supporting them in
> mainstream DJGPP) as originally suggestion by Alaric Williams?  Support
> in DJGPP is as simple as a couple of additional lines to the linker
> scripts (this MAY cause problems with Roberts efforts with binutils) as
> per the attached patch.

I just remebered one flaw in this:  even binutils 2.8.1 has a bug in gas
where it doesn't get relocations right when using non .text code
sections.  However, this bug has been fixed sometime befor binutils
2.8.0.15.

Bill
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