[ros-kernel] System DLL image bases in debug builds

[Royce Mitchell III]

Why not make a simple tool that will update baseaddress.cfg with a 
module's address automatically once the module is built successfully?

Mike Nordell wrote:

>Hartmut Birr wrote:
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>>I've changed my local source tree a little bit. The definitions of all dll
>>base adresses are now in baseaddress.cfg. This is what Mike has described.
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>There were a few things I hadn't considered, and some I didn't even mention
>since I didn't anticipate the idea to gain foothold this fast. :-)
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>What I envisioned was that this config file would be sorted in
>image-base-address order, to allow human readers to quickly find a specific
>address.
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>I believe the placement of it would be reactos/lib, to display "I only
>affect these libraries". Placed at top-level it more gives the impression of
>affecting all of ReactOS.
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>Unless there is a makefile included only by system-libraries makefiles, I
>think this config file should only be included by the libraries makefiles
>themselves - or create a makefile (helper-lib.mk?) for this purpose, to only
>affect just the system libraries. Building anything but those libraries it
>simply makes no sense to include this address-space configuration file.
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>I completely forgot about the matter that the DLLs would have to have this
>config file as a dependant, requiring even further additions to the
>libraries makefiles. To use kernel32.dll as an example. Where it today
>probably has something like:
>  kernel32.dll : KERNEL32_OBJS ...
>    ld ...
>it would have to be modified to
>  kernel32.dll : image_bases_config_file KERNEL32_OBJS ...
>    ld ...
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>Does any of this make any sense? Did I miss something? Are there reasons for
>not locating and localizing this as close as possible to the libraries, and
>only affecting them, that I haven't considered?
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>/Mike
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