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Re: Did I find an error in the current binutils or what???


On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 02:56, Charles Wilson wrote:

...
> Recent binutils (post-20010802) add special autoimport-support thunks to 

The import library for 

> the dll's that they create.  These are used to create a lookup table for 
> the variable exports, by fooling the windows runtime loader.  (I don't 
> understand the whole thing, but it's a neat concept.)

...

Rob


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