A quick fix for the DLL .reloc problem

[William Greathouse]

Hello All,

Attached is my contribution to the DLL .reloc section problem.

The invalid relocation table termination in the dll output has
caused me many problems when using gnuwin32 generated dll's with
other applications (particularly false 'Out of memory' errors).

John Cerney's dllcheck.exe has been wonderful for detecting this
problem, but I have had to rebuild as many as 40 (!) times to get
a 'clean' dll.  Upon looking at the generated file, I noticed that
nothing changes between builds except the table termination.  So,
I built a quick program to detect and _fix_ the .reloc table termination
problem.

NOTE:  This works for me, your mileage may vary.  The application was
built using cygnus b18 and mingw 0.1.4.  As such, it has no cygwin
version requirement/need.  I have successfully used the "fixed" dll's
with Microsloth Access and Excel.

Enjoy,
Bill

PS. I have thoughts of extending this to properly zero fill the "empty"
areas in applications/dll's to get around the "garbage in my output"
problems.  Anyone interested?
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dllfix.exe

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