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Re: Problem with using stripped cygwin1.dll built from CVS


On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:36:56AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:49:20AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>On Jun  7 16:50, David Rothenberger wrote:
>>> On 6/7/2005 4:28 PM, Brian Dessent wrote:
>>> >Part of the new cygheap changes that cgf recently checked in, were a
>>> >number of changes/tweaks to the linker script.  It's possible that your
>>> >checkout happened in the middle of those changes, or you didn't get them
>>> >all.  Try a recent checkout.  (If you are already using an up to date
>>> >tree, then ignore this...)
>>> 
>>> Total up-to-date tree. I did a cvs update -A this afternoon. I also get 
>>> this same error if I run strip (w/o args) on the DLL from the latest 
>>> snapshot.
>>
>>Weird.  I had this when trying to build Cygwin with Dwarf2 debugging
>>information and the linker script wasn't aware of the additional sections.
>>Could you paste the output of `objdump -h cygwin1.dll' of a stripped and
>>an unstripped DLL?
>
>I understand the problem.  It's a binutils bug that I'm investigating.
>Either gas or ld is marking NOLOAD sections as "read only" and that is
>causing windows to actually load them into memory.

There's a new "test" version of binutils available which seems to fix
this problem.  I'm awaiting approval for a patch in the binutils mailing
list before making this version official.

This turns out to have been a long-time bug in binutils, AFAICT.  The
debug sections that the GNU linker produces were not properly marked
as "noload" so debug data was actually loaded into memory.

cgf

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