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Re: [patch]: make idata$4 and .idata$5 more compliant to coff spec
- From: "Kai Tietz" <ktietz70 at googlemail dot com>
- To: "Nick Clifton" <nickc at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "Kai Tietz" <Kai dot Tietz at onevision dot com>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 17:17:09 +0100
- Subject: Re: [patch]: make idata$4 and .idata$5 more compliant to coff spec
- References: <496382CD.1060202@redhat.com>
2009/1/6 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>:
> Hi Kai,
>
>>> Yes, I verified this. Btw binutils
>>> now builds dll's the same way as MS does it. I am also not verify happy
>>> about this change, because it seems to
>>> be here for decades.
>
> Hmm, OK, in which case please consider making this an option
> controlled via a command line switch. Making the new behaviour the
> default should be OK (unless/until we get complaints about it), but I
> would like to preserve the old behaviour in case it turns out that it
> is needed for certain environments.
>
> Cheers
> Nick
>
>
Ok, how should I name it?
For dlltool maybe the option --prefixed-import-tables and same for ld?
Cheers,
Kai
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