Re: Branching for 2.12

[Danny Smith <danny_r_smith_2001 at yahoo dot co dot nz>]

 --- Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at
05:29:51AM +1100, Danny Smith wrote:
> > This bug is still present on mingw  target.
> >  
> > RE: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2002-01/msg00477.html
> > 
> > 
> > I am still having probelms with dll import libs built with ld -shared
> > since hash lookup of sections was introduced  on 2001-12-17. 
> > 
> > With this testcase, test,c
> > /* test.c */
> > int __attribute__((dllexport)) 
> > dll_int (int i)
> > {
> >   return i * i;
> > }
> > 
> > and using binutils from 20011216,
> > this script
> 
> I'm sorry, but since no one has stepped forward to look at this it will
> not be fixed in 2.12 (which is getting rapidly closer).
> 
> I spent all of this evening attempting to build a mingw32 toolchain.  I
> can't do it; no matter what I try gcc dies unable to find limits.h when
> building winsup.
> 
> I hacked around that, and was able to build a 'bad' DLL.  Looking at
> make_head, I bet I know what is wrong, but I don't know how to fix it:
> offsets in one section pointing into another following section.  The
> sections are presumably coming out in a different order.
> 
> So either someone else feels like fixing this, or it waits.

Thanks very much for trying.  I don't know how to fix it either, but I'll
try to learn.
Danny

> 
> -- 
> Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
> MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer 

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