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                    A QUICK FIX FOR THE DLL .RELOC PROBLEM
                                       
   William Greathouse (wgreathouse@smva.com)
   Wed, 02 Jul 1997 12:14:46 -0400
   
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   Hello All,
   
   
   Attached is my contribution to the DLL .reloc section problem.
   
   
   The invalid relocation table termination in the dll output has
   caused me many problems when using gnuwin32 generated dll's with
   other applications (particularly false 'Out of memory' errors).
   
   
   John Cerney's dllcheck.exe has been wonderful for detecting this
   problem, but I have had to rebuild as many as 40 (!) times to get
   a 'clean' dll. Upon looking at the generated file, I noticed that
   nothing changes between builds except the table termination. So,
   I built a quick program to detect and _fix_ the .reloc table
   termination
   problem.
   
   
   NOTE: This works for me, your mileage may vary. The application was
   built using cygnus b18 and mingw 0.1.4. As such, it has no cygwin
   version requirement/need. I have successfully used the "fixed" dll's
   with Microsloth Access and Excel.
   
   
   Enjoy,
   Bill
   
   
   PS. I have thoughts of extending this to properly zero fill the
   "empty"
   areas in applications/dll's to get around the "garbage in my output"
   problems. Anyone interested?

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