Yasm and bad Windows executables using Mingw/ld

[Peter Tanski]

On Dec 13, 2006, at 2:11 PM, Peter Johnson wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Peter Tanski wrote:
>> For compatibility with binutils/ld, which loads .comment sections  
>> into memory (invalid in PE-COFF files), and since the section must  
>> be read only, GAS outputs the .comment section to a specially  
>> named ".rdata" section: ".rdata$zzz".
>>
>> So modification would only be necessary for compatibility with  
>> binutils/ld. I can look into modifications to Yasm to save you  
>> some time; I am not sure whether you would *want* to modify Yasm's  
>> output just for compatibility with binutils/ld, unless that was  
>> specified by a different output format than win32.
>
> I'll go ahead and handle it for compatibility's sake.  It makes it  
> significantly easier that it comes in through the .ident directive  
> (I should have guessed that was the case).
>
> Thanks for tracking down the cause.  I'll take care of getting it  
> patched in Yasm.

No problem: I'm glad I could help :)  Thanks for patching Yasm.

Cheers,
Pete