[Bug target/40905] GCC creates invalid executable with auto-imported DLL and __attribute__((cold))

[ktietz at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Comment #5 from ktietz at gcc dot gnu dot org  2009-09-04 13:27 -------
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> 
> > 
> > Is it possible that it triggers the exception trying to write in text.unlikely
> > which is READONLY?
> > 
> 
> Exactly.  This is a linker, not a compiler issue.  If you are using a
> relatively recent binutils and mingw run time, the addition of the switch
> -Wl,--enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc-v2 should get around the READONLY problem.
> Otherwise, you could always just add __declspec (dllimport) to
>  extern int foo[2]; and so retain portability with the rest of the PE-COFF
> world.
> 
> Danny
> 

Right, this is a linker issue (or runtime issue of pseudo-relocation). But
newer mingw32's runtime uses new code for v1 relocations, too. So for it, this
issue should be solved, too.

So can we close this bug?

Cheers,
Kai


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