libtcl8.5.dll collides with Cygwin DLL by default

Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net
Thu Mar 15 01:50:00 GMT 2012


On 2012-03-08 03:12, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> The assumption that the Cygwin DLL has a given size and will never
> change is flawed.  How are we supposed to add new functionality if the
> DLL has to stick at a certain size?  And even using another GCC can
> easily change the size of the DLL, given changes in code generation.

Improving rebase is great, but should something be done to fix 
compute_dll_image_base(), perhaps change the base to 0x61800000 to give 
plenty of room for Cygwin?


Yaakov



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