From: dje@canuck.cygnus.com (Doug Evans) Subject: Re: Have I found the b17 C++ problem? 9 Dec 1996 22:57:02 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199612100036.QAA05755.cygnus.gnu-win32@canuck.cygnus.com> Original-To: gunther.ebert@ixos-leipzig.de Original-CC: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-reply-to: <32AC4545.D75@ixos-leipzig.de> (message from Gunther Ebert on Mon, 09 Dec 1996 17: 58:45 +0100) Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 17:58:45 +0100 From: Gunther Ebert The problem is that the Win32 PE format does only support section names up to 8 characters Not true. There is only room for 8 chars in the struct, but if there are more than 8 chars then "/number" is stored there which is an offset into the string table. See the Microsoft Portable Executable and Common Object File Format Specification 4.1, section 4, Section Table. - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".