> I actually did this, to make it error out cleanly instead of having to debug this very non-obvious issue, quite recently: https://github.com/mingw-w64/mingw-w64/commit/ca35236d9799af...

Thanks! I believe this will save many people a lot of time in their debugger.

> The runtime pseudo relocation fixing code ends up linked into your executables even if the executable doesn't use any runtime pseudo relocations - so essentially all MinGW programs will end up importing this function. That doesn't mean it does get called though.

Oops. Not a big deal, though; I assume it won't get called if the table is empty.