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Re: [PATCH] Silence ld auto-import warnings for pe-i386.


2009/2/26 Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com>:
> Kai Tietz wrote:
>
>> Just to make sure not to miss one important point. At the moment
>> pe(p)-coff ld - reasoned by the old pseudo-relocator code - makes
>> .text writable, too. This isn't anymore necessary by using the new
>> implementation of pseudo-reloc.c. Even for v1, there will be no more
>> the need to modify section flags for this, because new relocation code
>> makes sure, that the write permission is granted (and reset
>> afterwards) while relocation for both variant.
>
> ?Thanks Kai, I'll put that on my list of patches for later. ?I think we'll
> need to get the Cygwin runtime up-to-date with the new reloc stuff before we
> disable that code in ld, won't we? ?(AFAIK that's still a TO-DO.)
>
> ? ?cheers,
> ? ? ?DaveK
>

Yeah, we have to wait for it until cygwin supports it. Possibly we are
in need to support the old behaviour for people still sticking to
older runtimes, too.
Btw I posted the patch to mingw tracker for apply. I removed from our
source for the patch the mingw-w64 disclaimer. If they like a specific
disclaimer, they can choose one as they wish, it is public domain.

Cheers,
Kai
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