new runtime pseudo-reloc in cygwin 1.3.18
Charles Wilson
cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
Tue Dec 31 09:35:00 GMT 2002
Alexander Gottwald wrote:
>>So I don't even know where _XtInherit is called and whats different with the
>>relocation.
>
>
> gdb revealed:
>
> Dll1 (libXt) defines void _XtInherit(). Dll2 (libXaw) uses _XtInherit and
> passes it to a function in libXt which does
> if (x == _XtInherit) { foo() };
>
> Unfortunatly it is not the same if _XtInherit is used in libXt or libXaw.
> the statement x = _XtInherit for example resulted in
> x = 0xb38478 for libXt and
> x = 0x641550 for libXaw. And thats why the if condition failed.
I seem to remember that pointer comparisons across a DLL boundary is a
Bad Thing; relocations and such. But I don't remember where I saw that
-- MSDN or ld docs, and I can't find it now. :-(
--Chuck
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