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Re: Discrepancy with .reloc section between PE and PE+ emulations when linking -r.
- From: Kai Tietz <ktietz70 at googlemail dot com>
- To: Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:45:37 +0100
- Subject: Re: Discrepancy with .reloc section between PE and PE+ emulations when linking -r.
- References: <4994E930.5000601@gmail.com> <4994EEE9.6040006@gmail.com>
2009/2/13 Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com>:
> Dave Korn wrote:
> So, it starts to look like pe.em shouldn't be doing this for a relocatable
> link, rather than that pep.em should, and like I need to adjust the
> troublesome long section name tests mentioned in my other recent post to
> remove the check for the presence of a .reloc section, yesnomaybe?
Yes, this I fixed for pep.em some time ago. I wasn't aware that PE has
the same problem and didn't wanted to break something working. I had
an user request for PE+ that relocatable linkt was broken for it, and
I found that in this case no .reloc has to be emitted as spec says in
6.6
Cheers,
Kai
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