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

Dave Korn dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com
Sat Mar 7 05:00:00 GMT 2009


Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 04:42:20PM +0000, Dave Korn wrote:

>>  Can you enlarge on how you would see the name "--dll-characteristics"
>> causing confusion?   [ ... ]  I'm really
>> not grasping the problem that you think could arise.
> 
> Since you are talking about things like "documented name"s, why not just
> make each of these an option like the Microsoft linker does?  

  Because I'm not working to implement their linker spec, I'm working to
implement their object file format spec, so details of their linker syntax are
outside the scope of the work I am doing and not relevant to me.

    cheers,
      DaveK



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