> This was partly out of curiosity, and partly because it was quicker > doing that than finding a new unique base address to use for a new > module I added to my local tree. Rebuilt everything and ran a full > regression test, and everything passed. What am I missing? Do we > have parts of Python that rely on finding modules at explicit base > addresses? Is BaseAddress a relic from the past? Christian or > Martin?
As Christian says: specifying the base address so that the addresses don't overlap avoids having Windows to perform relocations on startup. There is a Microsoft tool (editbin /rebase) to compute non-overlapping base addresses for a given set of DLLs. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
