Re: --enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc support in cygwin, take 3.

[Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>]

egor duda wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Monday, 02 December, 2002 Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> EB> egor duda wrote:
>
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > Monday, 02 December, 2002 Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com wrote:
> > >
> > > EB> egor duda wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > > Monday, 02 December, 2002 egor duda deo@logos-m.ru wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > ed> 2002-12-02  Egor Duda <deo@logos-m.ru>
> > > > > ed>         * cygwin/lib/pseudo-reloc.c: New file.
> > > > >
> > > > > I guess i should put it to the public domain, so that mingw folks can
> > > > > also use it.
> > > EB> Is it usable without Cygwin?
> > >
> > > Yes. It doesn't use any cygwin functionality. Recent binutils should
> > > export __RUNTIME_PSEUDO_RELOC_LIST__ and __RUNTIME_PSEUDO_RELOC_LIST_END__
> > > symbols for all PE-based targets, including Mingw.
> > >
> > > I'm not that familiar with Mingw internals, but you just have to
> > > add a call to _pei386_runtime_relocator() to the application startup
> > > (to the crt2.o, IIRC) and link with pseudo-reloc.o.
> EB> So, should this be a part of binutils instead of Cygwin?
>
> No. It's a part of runtime environment. It just uses some information
> binutils provide.
Then public domain would be appreciated or you could also add it to 
mingw-runtime with a public domain license.

Earnie.