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Re: --enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc support in cygwin, take 3.
- From: Matt <matt at use dot net>
- To: <cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 11:30:33 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: --enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc support in cygwin, take 3.
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, egor duda wrote:
> CF> I'm also not sure that this is a great idea for mingw, which is supposed
> CF> to be a pretty generic windows environment, AFAIK. If mingw starts
> CF> creating fancy new dlls then that sort of strays from their core
> CF> purpose, IMO.
>
> Why? It's obvious for mingw people to implement, say, openssl library
> as a dll. It exports several data items. Mingw version of ssl.dll
> would export them. Now, imagine that someone writes an application
> which uses data items exported from ssl.dll and compiles in with
> mingw. If _pei386_runtime_relocator is linked within application and
> called at startup, then all references from foo.exe to ssl.dll which
> have to be fixed up, will be.
>
> The core idea of _pei386_runtime_relocator() is to be generic, as long
> as PE on i386 is concerned, hence the name. For instance, i don't see
> much difficulties for interix to use it too.
Having a proper reloc section would help be one step closer to running
cygwin and mingw programs under Purify. This makes it worthwhile, in my
opinion.
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