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RE: .def files for stdcall functions (was: linking problems with
- To: Colin Peters <colin at bird dot fu dot is dot saga-u dot ac dot jp>, gunther dot ebert at ixos-leipzig dot de
- Subject: RE: .def files for stdcall functions (was: linking problems with
- From: "Valery Fine" <fine at mail dot cern dot ch>
- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 11:27:57 +0100
- CC: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Organization: CERN/PPE/NA49
- Reply-to: fine at mail dot cern dot ch
On 17 Sep 97 at 15:45, Colin Peters wrote:
> Gunther Ebert[SMTP:gunther.ebert@ixos-leipzig.de] wrote:
> >Colin Peters wrote:
> >> My beef with all this is: why does GCC do it this way at all? What purpose
> >> does the @NN serve? After all, GCC knows how to generate the correct
> >> function call given a prototype, it *generates* the @NN, so it doesn't
> >> need it to know what to do.
> >
> [snip]
>
MS used to supply just both kind of the entry points with its
library @NN AND "plain" one as an alias of the first one. (at least
it is always true for MS Fortran.
It fits all needs I guess. I wonder COFF format allows aliases. Why
GNU tools can not employ the same approach ?
Dr. Valeri Faine (Valery Fine)
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