[PATCH] ld: revert default dll characteristics for Cygwin.

ASSI Stromeko@nexgo.de
Tue Mar 16 17:37:13 GMT 2021


ASSI writes:
> Jeremy Drake via Binutils writes:
>> Mail thread from
>> https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2021-February/247922.html suggests
>> these flags will NOT work for Cygwin, which relies on stable address
>> layouts for their fork() emulation.
>
> I have not yet made up my mind about NX_COMPAT which may be useful to
> have anyway (but just like ASLR is hard to get definitive documentation
> on what it actually does on which version of Windows).

Another thing that does not sit well with me is that there quite likely
is a need to control the flags for exectutables and libraries
differently.  We already do that in Cygwin with the ts_aware flag (which
tacks onto executables only) in the toolchain configuration.


Regards,
Achim.
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