Problem with using stripped cygwin1.dll built from CVS

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:49:20AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Jun  7 16:50, David Rothenberger wrote:
>> On 6/7/2005 4:28 PM, Brian Dessent wrote:
>> >Part of the new cygheap changes that cgf recently checked in, were a
>> >number of changes/tweaks to the linker script.  It's possible that your
>> >checkout happened in the middle of those changes, or you didn't get them
>> >all.  Try a recent checkout.  (If you are already using an up to date
>> >tree, then ignore this...)
>> 
>> Total up-to-date tree. I did a cvs update -A this afternoon. I also get 
>> this same error if I run strip (w/o args) on the DLL from the latest 
>> snapshot.
>
>Weird.  I had this when trying to build Cygwin with Dwarf2 debugging
>information and the linker script wasn't aware of the additional sections.
>Could you paste the output of `objdump -h cygwin1.dll' of a stripped and
>an unstripped DLL?

I understand the problem.  It's a binutils bug that I'm investigating.
Either gas or ld is marking NOLOAD sections as "read only" and that is
causing windows to actually load them into memory.

cgf

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