Re: [patch/RFC] ld/pe-dll.c: mark .reloc section as discardable unless building a relocatable dll

[Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at netscape dot net>]

Charles Wilson wrote:

> Danny Smith wrote:
>
> Funny, this was a hot topic of debate on cygwin-apps/developers(?) about 
> a year ago.  Nobody could remember how exactly to make a dll 
> non-relocatable.  It came up because we were thinking of doing fancy 
> non-reloc stuff for cygwin1.dll to help with the "fork/exec problem". 
> But instead "we" developed the rebase tool...

Well not to stir things up, but I don't think the book should be closed 
on this issue [maybe I "misread" your statement?].  No offense to Jason, 
but rebase was and still is a kludge to paper over a more pervasive 
problem in Cygwin's fork.  Unfortunately, it will have to suffice until 
a better solution is found :-/.  Of course, this probably isn't the best 
list to start in on this...

Cheers,
Nicholas