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[Ralf Habacker]

> 1) Ralf's "removing unused _nm_ symbol exports" fix

Relating to the thread
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-04/msg00433.html i've updated this
patch to the latest cvs release.

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2002-04-25  Ralf Habacker  <Ralf.Habacker@freenet.de>

	* pe-dll.cc (autofilter_symbolprefixlist): don't export
      reimported functions.
      (make_one): let create only _nm_.. for data symbols

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$ cvs diff -ubBp pe-dll.c
Index: pe-dll.c
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RCS file: /cvs/src/src/ld/pe-dll.c,v
retrieving revision 1.39
diff -u -3 -p -B -u -b -B -p -r1.39 pe-dll.c
--- pe-dll.c    3 May 2002 13:48:55 -0000       1.39
+++ pe-dll.c    20 May 2002 17:18:47 -0000
@@ -252,6 +252,8 @@ static autofilter_entry_type autofilter_
   /*  { "__imp_", 6 }, */
   /* Do __imp_ explicitly to save time.  */
   { "__rtti_", 7 },
+  /* Don't export reimported functions*/
+  { "_nm_", 4 },
   { "__builtin_", 10 },
   /* Don't export symbols specifying internal DLL layout.  */
   { "_head_", 6 },
@@ -1793,8 +1795,11 @@ make_one (exp, parent)
   quick_symbol (abfd, U ("_head_"), dll_symname, "", UNDSEC, BSF_GLOBAL, 0);
   quick_symbol (abfd, U ("_imp__"), exp->internal_name, "", id5, BSF_GLOBAL,
0);
   /* Symbol to reference ord/name of imported
-     symbol, used to implement auto-import.  */
-  quick_symbol (abfd, U("_nm__"), exp->internal_name, "", id6, BSF_GLOBAL, 0);
+     symbol, used to implement auto-import.
+     (only for data symbols) */
+  if (exp->flag_data)
+    quick_symbol (abfd, U("_nm__"), exp->internal_name, "", id6, BSF_GLOBAL,0);
+
   if (pe_dll_compat_implib)
     quick_symbol (abfd, U ("__imp_"), exp->internal_name, "",
                  id5, BSF_GLOBAL, 0);

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Because revision 1.39 does not contain any functional changes and the patches
for 1.3.8 and 1.39 are the same (except some line offset), the tests I have
running in the above mentioned thread are valid.

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revision 1.39
date: 2002/05/03 13:48:55;  author: kazu;  state: Exp;  lines: +33 -33
        * ld.h: Fix formatting.
        * ldexp.c: Likewise.
        * ldfile.c: Likewise.
        * ldlang.c: Likewise.
        * ldmain.c: Likewise.
        * lexsup.c: Likewise.
        * pe-dll.c: Likewise.
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3) Ralf's patch for "objdump/cygwin crashes on auto-imported libs"

Nick Clifton has applied a patch for a similar problem, I will look if this
solve this already.

peXXigen.c
revision 1.7
date: 2002/05/15 15:28:12;  author: nickc;  state: Exp;  lines: +54 -3
Do not assume that the first thunk is located in the same section as the
import table.  Instead check, and if necessary load the section containing
the thunk.

Ralf