[patch]: make idata$4 and .idata$5 more compliant to coff spec

Kai Tietz ktietz70@googlemail.com
Tue Jan 6 16:17:00 GMT 2009


2009/1/6 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>:
> Hi Kai,
>
>>> Yes, I verified this. Btw binutils
>>> now builds dll's the same way as MS does it. I am also not verify happy
>>> about this change, because it seems to
>>> be here for decades.
>
> Hmm, OK, in which case please consider making this an option
> controlled via a command line switch.  Making the new behaviour the
> default should be OK (unless/until we get complaints about it), but I
> would like to preserve the old behaviour in case it turns out that it
> is needed for certain environments.
>
> Cheers
>  Nick
>
>

Ok, how should I name it?
For dlltool maybe the option --prefixed-import-tables and same for ld?

Cheers,
Kai


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