From:	jrussell AT voicenet DOT com (J Russell Smyth)
Subject:	Re: .def files for stdcall functions (was: linking problems with
17 Sep 1997 19:50:36 -0700 :
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To:	fine AT mail DOT cern DOT ch
Cc:	Colin Peters <colin AT bird DOT fu DOT is DOT saga-u DOT ac DOT jp>,
	gunther DOT ebert AT ixos-leipzig DOT de, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Valery Fine wrote:

> On 17 Sep 97 at 15:45, Colin Peters wrote:
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>   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 ?

This is exactly the temporary fix I have applied to my work ..
generating AT nn and aliasing to "plain" in the .def files.. it is just a
lot of extra work,
and to me it is messy as ms dll's dont need to do it! (at least not as
shows
in their exports!)

   Russ Smyth
   jrussell AT voicenet DOT com

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