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From: Shankar Unni <shankarunni AT netscape DOT net>
Subject: Re: cygwin, libtool, dlpreopen, and .rdata
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:09:48 -0700
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Brian Ford wrote:

> Yes, I see.  I hope Danny Smith might weigh in here?
> 
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2004-02/msg00003.html

I would argue that this is gcc's responsibility. If a const structure 
variable contains *any* code or data addresses, it's not safe to put it 
in .rdata (or .rodata, whatever the platform calls it), because of 
relocation issues.

So rather than detect a "DLL import", I'd say *any* function addresses 
in a const initializer should cause the variable to go into a regular 
.data section, without any complicated decision-making by binutils.

(Note: this is not the same problem that Danny talks about in that 
message - that usage was legitimate, and there was no attempt to have a 
const initialized variable with a data address.)


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