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

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Wed Nov 17 16:27:52 GMT 2021


Hi Corinna,

> Any chance to get this patch into binutils soon?

If by soon you mean "almost a month later" then yes. :-(

> The default PE flag values generated for Cygwin executables are really a
> problem in terms of dynamicbase.  We can change that on the compiler
> command line, but that's just a workaround.

OK, it is done.  I simplified the patch to drop all the changes of
move_default_addr_high to cygwin_behaviour as it made the diff smaller,
but the essential element is there.

Cheers
   Nick



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