[PATCH RFC] fork: reduce chances for "address space is already occupied" errors

[Michael Haubenwallner]

On 4/1/19 5:56 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr  1 16:56, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Apr  1 16:28, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
>>> On 3/28/19 9:30 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>> can you please collect the base addresses of all DLLs generated during
>>>> the build, plus their size and make a sorted list?  It would be
>>>> interesting to know if the hash algorithm in ld is actually as bad
>>>> as I conjecture.
>>>
>>> Please find attached the output of rebase -i for the dlls after bootstrap
>>> on Cygwin 3.0.4, each built with ld from binutils-2.31.1.
> 
> Oh, wait.  That's not what I was looking for.  The addresses are ok, but
> the paths *must* be the ones at the time the DLLs have been created,
> because that's what ld uses when creating the image base addresses.  The
> addresses combined with the installation paths don't make sense anymore.

So I have intercepted the ld.exe to show 'rebase -i' on any just created dll,
tell about the exact -o argument to ld, and the current directory.

This is with binutils-2.31.1

Anything else needed?

/haubi/
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