Hi,
I am trying to figure out the cause of a slow application startup, and the
evidence I have so far, points to mingw's _pei386_runtime_relocator()
routine as the culprit. When I start my app under debugger, I see this
function calling VirtualProtect() about a zillion times in a row.
Looking
E:\Desktop\mingw-w64-mingw-w64grep -nr MINGW64_VERSION_MAJOR .
(... omitted ...)
./mingw-w64-headers/crt/_mingw_mac.h:14:#define __MINGW64_VERSION_MAJOR 4
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Best regards,
lh_mouse
2014-08-15
Hi,
To speed things up, i would like to do it as shown in the attached patch, is
that ok with you?
(NOTE: on ARM, double == long double)
commit f80874fdd29e66bef2d28843656be84344031c39
Author: André Hentschel n...@dawncrow.de
Date: Fri Aug 15 00:03:11 2014 +0200
softmath: Add acoshl
diff
So, it looks like what has happened is that newer OSs (ie = Vista) set
the page protect to PAGE_EXECUTE_WRITECOPY when doing a LoadLibrary.
This is a (relatively) new flag and apparently Mingw still assumes the
old values are always in use.
There are 3 places in pseudo-reloc.c that do
