[patch PE-COFF]: Some minor nits
Dave Korn
dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com
Mon Mar 16 23:05:00 GMT 2009
Kai Tietz wrote:
> Hello,
Hi Kai,
> Some minor nits I found in coffcode.h. One is that debugging sections have
> to have readonly flag set (abstracted by the section flags of '.debug' in
> pe-coff spec).
Can you point us at a reference for this? And have you run the GDB
testsuite to see if it causes any changes? (As I discovered recently,
sometimes the other tools have come to depend on these minor non-compliances
of ours!)
> Secondly a clean-up about NOREAD sections.
http://www.national.com/rap/files/datasheet.pdf :)
> I introduced a helper flag for
> section's flags to indicated, that a section has no memory flag set,
> I tested this patch for i686-pc-cygwin and for x86_64-pc-ming32 and saw no
> regressions on testrun.
Does anything actually currently use NOREAD?
cheers,
DaveK
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