Re: [PATCH] New --pe-dll-characteristcs switch for PE ld.

[Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>]

Dave Korn wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote: 
>> or --pe-characteristics.
> 
>   I could live with this, because it's part of the optional PE header, and the
> Characteristics field is part of the base COFF header, so could in theory be
> denoted by "--coff-characteristics".

FWIW, I like this suggestion.  Using

   --pe-characteristics
	manipulate flags in the DllCharacteristics field of the
	output object's "optional" PE header. When MS defined
	the PE format and decided to name this field, they picked
	a poor name: it really isn't DLL specific at all.  This
	field is really a PE extension to the base COFF
	characteristics...

This would leave room later for

    --coff-characteristics
	manipulate flags in the Characteristics field of the output
	object's base COFF header. (I think just plain
	"--characteristics" is way too ambiguous, for either field).

--
Chuck