--enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc support in cygwin, take 3.

Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Mon Dec 2 05:20:00 GMT 2002


egor duda wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Monday, 02 December, 2002 Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> EB> egor duda wrote:
> 
>>>Monday, 02 December, 2002 egor duda deo@logos-m.ru wrote:
>>>
>>>ed> 2002-12-02  Egor Duda <deo@logos-m.ru>
>>>ed>         * cygwin/lib/pseudo-reloc.c: New file.
>>>
>>>I guess i should put it to the public domain, so that mingw folks can
>>>also use it.
>>>
>>
> 
> EB> Is it usable without Cygwin?
> 
> Yes. It doesn't use any cygwin functionality. Recent binutils should
> export __RUNTIME_PSEUDO_RELOC_LIST__ and __RUNTIME_PSEUDO_RELOC_LIST_END__
> symbols for all PE-based targets, including Mingw.
> 
> I'm not that familiar with Mingw internals, but you just have to
> add a call to _pei386_runtime_relocator() to the application startup
> (to the crt2.o, IIRC) and link with pseudo-reloc.o.
> 

So, should this be a part of binutils instead of Cygwin?

Earnie.



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