On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 11:32:03AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Jun 30 06:45, Achim Gratz wrote: >> On Wednesday 20 June 2012, 11:33:17, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> > If you really want -E to be an exclusive option, then what I'm missing >> > is the enforcement on the command line. >> >> Here's a reworked patch (against rebase-4.2.0-1) that enforces mutual >> exclusivity between -T and -E; extra files given on the command line are >> processed with the list and the description has been altered to hopefully be >> more clear in that respect. This change also forces that only a single such >> option is present on the command line instead of silently using the last one >> only. >> >> Typical use of this new option would be: >> >> cygport $p compile >> find $p -name \*.dll -o -name \*.so | rebase -sE - >> cygport $p test >> >> Recording the ephemeral files in the database properly would likely require >> a new database format and more support functions, so I'm skipping that for >> now, I also don't see any need for that at the moment. > >You could also just mark them internally in the bitfield (which you >kinda already do) and then tweak the merge function to sort the >ephemeral ones independent of the persistent DLLs so the persistent DLLs >are always compacted from the start base address downwards with >the ephemeral ones following. Then you just store the persistent ones. > >Jason, it's your call now. You didn't chime in at all so far. I'm not >sure this is really necessary functionality but it doesn't hurt either >and it appears to help in some scenarios.
I'm not paying close attention but I have to say that I really don't like the name "ephemeral" for a switch. Couldn't it be named more precisely to indicate what it is doing like --no-update-db or something like that? cgf
