From: noer@cygnus.com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject: Re: Linker switches [ was: Re: API's that certainly do work. ]
29 Mar 1997 02:34:40 -0800
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marcus@bighorn.dr.lucent.com wrote:
[...]
> a file that terminates the .idata$4 and .idata$5 lists (for this DLL only)
> and a terminator for the entire descriptor list in .idata$3.  The cygwin32
> strategy is slightly different, and they forgot the .idata$3 terminator, but
> it is similar.
[...]

The .idata3 terminator isn't automatically produced by any of the tools,
because it was hard to integrate this functionality into ld/dlltool
and/or because nobody has spent the time to do so.

Producing dlls is currently much more clumsy than I think it needs to be.
(I'd like to do away with dlltool entirely and have the functionality
included in ld but I don't know how practical this would be).  Regardless,
the dll building process is something I think is important to improve.

-- 
Geoffrey Noer
noer@cygnus.com
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