--enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc support in cygwin, take 3.

[egor duda]

Hi!

Monday, 02 December, 2002 Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com wrote:

EB> egor duda wrote:
>> Hi!
>> 
>> Monday, 02 December, 2002 Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com wrote:
>> 
>> EB> egor duda wrote:
>> 
>>>>Monday, 02 December, 2002 egor duda deo@logos-m.ru wrote:
>>>>
>>>>ed> 2002-12-02  Egor Duda <deo@logos-m.ru>
>>>>ed>         * cygwin/lib/pseudo-reloc.c: New file.
>>>>
>>>>I guess i should put it to the public domain, so that mingw folks can
>>>>also use it.
>>>>
>>>
>> 
>> EB> Is it usable without Cygwin?
>> 
>> Yes. It doesn't use any cygwin functionality. Recent binutils should
>> export __RUNTIME_PSEUDO_RELOC_LIST__ and __RUNTIME_PSEUDO_RELOC_LIST_END__
>> symbols for all PE-based targets, including Mingw.
>> 
>> I'm not that familiar with Mingw internals, but you just have to
>> add a call to _pei386_runtime_relocator() to the application startup
>> (to the crt2.o, IIRC) and link with pseudo-reloc.o.
>> 

EB> So, should this be a part of binutils instead of Cygwin?

No. It's a part of runtime environment. It just uses some information
binutils provide.

Egor.            mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19