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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: file-5.00-1


On Feb 20 13:35, Dave Korn wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Apparently.  I rebased the DLL alone and afterwards file simply stopped
> > working.  The DLL has a base address of 0x6a500000.  Even rebasing to
> > the very same address results in a coredump!
> > 
> > The DLL has been built with -static-libgcc.  Assuming that this might
> > have been the reason I rebuilt the file package without -static-libgcc,
> > so the DLL now depends on cyggcc_s.dll.  And, guess what, afterwards
> > the DLL is rebaseable just fine.
> > 
> > Dave?  Any idea why this occurs?  The crash happens when the Cygwin DLL
> > is running the ctors list.  Given that the file package is using plain
> > C, it seems that a static libgcc is non-relocatable for whatever reason.
> 
>   Investigating.  While I do that, I noticed a bug:
> 
> libtool: compile:  gcc-4 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..
> -DMAGIC=\"/usr/local/share/file/magic\" -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
> -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-declarations -Wredundant-decls
> -Wnested-externs -Wsign-compare -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wshadow -Wcast-qual
> -Wwrite-strings -Wextra -Wunused-parameter -g -O2 -MT magic.lo -MD -MP -MF
> .deps/magic.Tpo -c magic.c -o magic.o
> magic.c: In function 'file_or_fd':
> magic.c:304: warning: passing argument 1 of 'strlcat' makes pointer from
> integer without a cast
> 
>    304				(void)strlcat(strlcpy(tmp, inname, len), ".exe", len);
> 
> 
>   That sort of construct works for "strcat (strcpy ())" but not for the 'l'
> versions, they aren't drop-in replacements.

Urgh!


Corinna

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