[Bug ld/4844] auto-import and const data import problem

[ebotcazou at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Additional Comments From ebotcazou at gcc dot gnu dot org  2007-10-02 
18:19 -------
> But only if you are using constant data structures.  (That need to be 
> auto-imported ?)  And only if the user did not put --enable-auto-import on 
> their command line.

Constant data structures referencing symbols from auto-imported DLLs.  Note
that GCC doesn't downgrade them to writable memory in spite of the runtime
relocations (the mechanism to that effect is not enabled for PE-COFF).

> The point is, I worry about the bugs that will be caused by putting read
> only data into the read/write data section.  (Or maybe the bugs that will
> not be caught by so doing).  This fix for auto-import is a hack and I would
> really prefer it if it was not the linker's default behaviour.

Not very different from making the code entirely writable.  The head comment
in pe-dll.c even says that this doesn't conform to the PE-COFF specs.

> So to me, providing a warning message and telling the user of the command
> line option that they ought to be using is an acceptable compromise.  If a
> programmer's app starts to seg fault, then one thing they ought to do is go
> back over the build logs and look for any messages from the compiler and
> linker telling them of potential problems.

All right, this makes sense.


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