[1.7] rebaseall doesn't solve the problem

[Dave Korn]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 05:00:28AM +0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 10:00:30PM +0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>>>> --pe-dll-characteristics=<name>|<integer>[(+|,:)<name>|<integer>[...]]
>>> I thought we'd established that these aren't just dll characteristics.
>> Well, it's the name of the field in the PE IMAGE_OPTIONAL_HEADER (coff
>> extension header), so it's canonical, regardless if it also applies to
>> executables.
> 
> Yes, I am aware of this.
> 
> Regardless, I don't think a publicly-exposed interface should be unclear
> like this.

  We can discuss this in depth on the binutils list when I submit the patch,
there's not much point in having a long OT thread here.  Let's see what the
other PE stakeholders feel.

    cheers,
      DaveK


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