[patch/RFC] ld/pe-dll.c: mark .reloc section as discardable unless building a relocatable dll

[Charles Wilson]

Nicholas Wourms wrote:
>> Funny, this was a hot topic of debate on cygwin-apps/developers(?) 
>> about a year ago.  Nobody could remember how exactly to make a dll 
>> non-relocatable.  It came up because we were thinking of doing fancy 
>> non-reloc stuff for cygwin1.dll to help with the "fork/exec problem". 
>> But instead "we" developed the rebase tool...
> 
> 
> Well not to stir things up, but I don't think the book should be closed 
> on this issue [maybe I "misread" your statement?].  No offense to Jason, 
> but rebase was and still is a kludge to paper over a more pervasive 
> problem in Cygwin's fork.  Unfortunately, it will have to suffice until 
> a better solution is found :-/.  Of course, this probably isn't the best 
> list to start in on this...

You're right: this is off topic for the binutils mailing list, unless 
you have a specific *binutils* fix in mind for the problem.  Please, 
let's NOT continue down this subthread here; take it to cygwin@.

--
Chuck