[PATCH] pei386: make --enable-auto-import default

[Charles Wilson]

Blarg.  The dangers of "one last change" without actually testing it. 
Use the attached patch instead of earlier one...

this one actually compiles, works, and does what the changelog claims. 
Sorry for the confusion.

--Chuck


Charles Wilson wrote:

> auto-import has been turned on by default in the cygwin build since 
> November, with no ill effects.  This patch turns it on by default in 
> general, but also changes the way auto-import-related 
> warning/informational messages are issued, depending on whether 
> auto-import is on by default, or is explicitly enabled (obviously there 
> are no auto-import-related messages when auto-import is explicitly 
> disabled...)
> 
> Since the tests in /bfd/ against pei386_auto_import are already against 
> "zero/non-zero", then we can use the same -1 == default (implicitly 
> enabled), 1 == explicitly enabled, 0 == explicitly disabled formuation 
> that stdcall_fixup uses.
> 
> ./bfd/cofflink.c:         if (!h && info->pei386_auto_import)
> ./bfd/linker.c:   if (info->pei386_auto_import)
> 
> When info->pei386_auto_import = -1 (default) then we continue to issue a 
> message when auto-importing a variable.  If info->pei386_auto_import = 
> 1, then we suppress those informational messages -- the user obviously 
> knows that she is auto-importing variables, since she explicitly 
> --enabled them.
> 
> I downgraded the "Warning: resolving %s by linking to %s (auto-import)" 
>  message to 'info_msg' on stdout, instead of 'einfo' on stderr.
> 
> --Chuck
> 
> 2002-05-30  Charles Wilson  <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>
> 
>     * ld/ldmain.c (main): initialize link_info.pei386_auto_import
>     to -1 == implicit enable.
>     * ld/emultempl/pe.em (gld_${EMULATION_NAME}_before_parse):
>     initialize link_info.pei386_auto_import to -1 == implicit
>     enable.
>     (gld_${EMULATION_NAME}_parse_args): When processing
>     --enable-auto-import and --disable-auto-import options, use
>     '1' and '0' instead of 'true' and 'false'.
>     (pe_find_data_imports): Only issue message about auto-import
>     when the feature is implicitly enabled.  Downgrade message to
>     informational instead of warning.

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