Pierre,
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 09:34:27AM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason Tishler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thanks for the above. :,(
> > Unfortunately, I have found that the DLLs need a gap between them to
> > guarantee that fork() won't fail. Additionally, I have run out of
> > address space even when starting at 0x70000000 on a system with a lot a
> > DLLs. So, I'm not sure the standard base address scheme will work. As
> > Cygwin continues to grow (and more DLLs added), people may actually have
> > to chose a subset of DLLs to rebase... :,(
>
> How much of a gap?
rebaseall uses 0x10000, which is the smallest amount I found to work
empirically.
> So you are saying that neither --enable-auto-image-base
I meant --enable-auto-image-base will only help, but not completely
solve the problem.
> nor the centralized database will work...
I'm concerned a global, centralized database will run out of address
space sooner rather than later.
> By the way, is it reliable to use objdump -x to find the base
> (ImageBase) ? For cygssl-0.9.8.dll it is 10000000, but I thought the
> base was 0x63000000
I use a command line like the following:
$ objdump -p /usr/bin/cygssl-0.9.7.dll | fgrep ImageBase
ImageBase 6c700000
Jason
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