ordinal linking for cygwin ld
Ralf Habacker
Ralf.Habacker@freenet.de
Sun Apr 28 10:10:00 GMT 2002
> Ok, I see what it does. Doesn't it have to do that for each reference to
> the auto-imported variable?
For each auto-imported variable an IMAGE_IMPORT_DESCRIPTOR and an
IMPORT_THUNK_DATA element is necessary.
> If so, then heavy use of an imported variable could make the
> INT and IAT quite large - and lots of fixups
> needed.
Yes, these are the costs.
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