rebaseall rebasing dlls into cygwin address range?

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Mon Apr 25 07:05:00 GMT 2011


On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 09:57:16AM -0400, Edward Lam wrote:
>On Wed, April 20, 2011 21:06, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> But, for now, just setting the base to something higher:
>>
>> rebaseall -b 0x77000000
>>
>> would solve some of the problems we've seen.
>>
>> I don't know if that stomps on system routines or not, though.
>
>Just curious, why is this even a problem? If the system libraries happen
>to use some base address that is already taken up, the loader is supposed
>to just choose a different spot.

Maybe you don't understand what rebaseall is used for?  It's purpose is to
eliminate collisions with other dlls.

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