Re: Still cant get anything to show up in the Thread Local Storage Directory

[jonwil at tpg dot com dot au]

I added my code to _bfd_XXi_final_link_postscript() (which is where someone else
told me to add it)
but its not actually appearing in the output file.
Aparently, its because _bfd_XXi_swap_aouthdr_out() zeros out the directory.
So, the question is, how should I get the stuff to be saved between the call to
_bfd_XXi_final_link_postscript() and the actual output to the exe file.

_bfd_XXi_swap_aouthdr_out() actually contains code that saves idata2 and idata5
idata2 = pe->pe_opthdr.DataDirectory[1];
idata5 = pe->pe_opthdr.DataDirectory[12];

then restores them later after the directory has been zeroed out
extra->DataDirectory[1]  = idata2;
extra->DataDirectory[12] = idata5;

I tried to do the same thing for DataDirectory[9]  but it didnt seem to help (in
fact, DataDirectory[9] was 0 before it even got to the tls =
pe->pe_opthdr.DataDirectory[9]; line from what I could tell with some debug
print statements)

Also, one version of MingW binutils (the current official version) mentions this
local patch:
2002-08-25  Danny Smith 
	* peXXigen.c (_bfd_XXi_swap_aouthdr_out): Don't null out
	data directory entries.
	(Bug reported by Donn Terry ).
However, the change isnt in the current "candidate" version on sourceforge (for
whatever reason)

So, I need someone that knows a lot more than I do about libbfd to take a look
at this stuff and tell me just what is going on here and how to make things work.

Is the code like tls = pe->pe_opthdr.DataDirectory[9]; the best way to save and
restore it later?
Is there any reason to do the memset that zeroes out the DataDirectory at all?