On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 03:21:26PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >So, that's why only some applications manifest this problem; it's only >the ones that explicitly pass -lc in their LDFLAGS.
So, given how limited the problem is, I don't think the alarmist Subject was really called for. Anyone reading the subject would think that there was something seriously wrong with Cygwin 1.7 and that is not the case. >...Both exes have an IAT from kernel32 importing GetACP and Get >ModuleHandleA, and two single-entry IATs referencing _impure_ptr >(auto-import entries, pointing into the .text section) right at the end >of their .idata sections. Where they differ is at the start of .idata; >the working exe has a single import table with 111 imports from >cygwin1.dll, where the failing exe has two import tables from >cygwin1.dll with 101 and 10 entries respectively. I mentioned that things still work this way (as they have for the last eight years) when I announced the speclib rewrite and you said: "Yes, multiple import tables for the same DLL Name are definitely OK; if MS ever do anything to change this, we'll have real problems with auto-import." Did you miss adding an "as expected" in the above paragraph? cgf -- 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/
