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Diffstat (limited to 'ld/ld.texinfo')
| -rw-r--r-- | ld/ld.texinfo | 13 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/ld/ld.texinfo b/ld/ld.texinfo index f0faa8e932..ed7b3d1f6a 100644 --- a/ld/ld.texinfo +++ b/ld/ld.texinfo @@ -687,7 +687,9 @@ Turn off page alignment of sections, and mark the output as Set the text and data sections to be readable and writable. Also, do not page-align the data segment, and disable linking against shared libraries. If the output format supports Unix style magic numbers, -mark the output as @code{OMAGIC}. +mark the output as @code{OMAGIC}. Note: Although a writable text section +is allowed for PE-COFF targets, it does not conform to the format +specification published by Microsoft. @kindex --no-omagic @cindex OMAGIC @@ -1950,8 +1952,13 @@ uwin, pw, etc. For instance, cygwin DLLs typically use @item --enable-auto-import Do sophisticated linking of @code{_symbol} to @code{__imp__symbol} for DATA imports from DLLs, and create the necessary thunking symbols when -building the import libraries with those DATA exports. This generally -will 'just work' -- but sometimes you may see this message: +building the import libraries with those DATA exports. Note: Use of the +'auto-import' extension will cause the text section of the image file +to be made writable. This does not conform to the PE-COFF format +specification published by Microsoft. + +Using 'auto-import' generally will 'just work' -- but sometimes you may +see this message: "variable '<var>' can't be auto-imported. Please read the documentation for ld's @code{--enable-auto-import} for details." |
