binutils feature request: ld --disable-large-address-aware [PATCH]

[Christian Franke]

Christian Franke wrote:
> A few programs are not compatible with --large-address-aware which is 
> enabled by default in current x86 ld. For example cdrkit, dvd+rw-tools 
> and smartmontools use IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THROUGH_DIRECT which apparently 
> requires user buffers below 2GiB.
>
> Using "LDFLAGS=-Wl,--disable-large-address-aware" would be much easier 
> than adding an extra Cygwin specific "peflags --bigaddr=false *.exe" 
> post-build step.
>
> (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-04/msg00342.html :-)

With the attached patch, "gcc -Wl,--disable-large-address-aware ..." 
works as expected. Documentation update is missing.

It would probably make sense to add a --enable-large-address-aware 
option as a synonym for --large-address-aware to keep enable/disable 
options consistent.

There is a similar issue with --tsaware. It is enabled by default in 
spec file but cannot be disabled in gcc command line. I don't know 
whether there is a need for --disable-tsaware.

Christian

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