On Feb 28 21:28, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 28 14:51, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 01:47:16PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: > > >Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >> If so, I'm wondering if setting the TS-aware flag shouldn't become > > >> default in GCC. What do you say, Dave? Would that be possible? > > > > > >I'd probably wait on that for the /next/ release (e.g. after 4.3.2-2), > > >[...] > > >Maybe the aslr functionality is different enough -- and useful in enough > > >contexts that differ from rebasing -- that instead of incorporating > > >'call aslr TOO' into rebaseall, there should be a separate 'aslrall' > > >script? > > > > It should be trivial to add this to binutils. Doesn't it ultimately > > belong in ld and (maybe) objcopy? > > Yes, that should be done in ld. > > > I can add this now but I don't think it should be the default just yet. > > If the TS-aware flag actually helps to avoid the tsappcmp.dll bug, then > I think the flag should be set by ld by default for Cygwin apps.
Btw., I just noticed that the Visual C++ Linker sets the TS-aware flag by default, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/01cfys9z.aspx It would probably be very helpful in the long run if ld had some generic option to set any of the Windows-specific header flags at build time. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
