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Re: Question about the .idata$ sections and their missing symbols

2009/1/4 Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com>:
> Kai Tietz wrote:
>
>> The issue is that those idata$<n> sections aren't necessarily in a
>> writable section. E.g. on WM 61 OS expects that IAT (idata$5) is
>> placed within the .data section and the rest is put into the .rdata
>> section.
>
>  Won't --enable-auto-import fix that?
>
>    cheers,
>      DaveK
>

No, because WM 6.1 expects that the IAT is in .data section, but the
rest have to be in read-only section. Otherwise it simply rejects the
start. Auto-importing doesn't helps here.

Cheers,
Kai
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