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Re: mingw DLL import library compatibility (with trivial patch)
>
> In general it would be good to put those import-library generation
> routines into pe-coff specific parts of bfd. So we could avoid
> different behavior of dlltool and ld. Also it would allow us to
> implement the new ANON object format used by MS for import symbols
> (also described in PE-COFF specification).
>
I actually started looking at the archive generation functions because
the PE-COFF specification differs in the long extended name table very
slightly and annoyingly from the SYSV format --- member names in this
table are apparently supposed to be NULL terminated and not '/\n'
terminated in this platform --- which means that the function to
construct the extended name table is not quite right <sigh>.