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Date:	Sun, 26 Aug 2001 11:43:06 -0400
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In-reply-to:	<3B891172.9000207@ece.gatech.edu> (message from Charles Wilson on
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Subject:	Re: [aida_s AT mx12 DOT freecom DOT ne DOT jp: A serious bug of "ld --enable-auto-import"]
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> Urk.

I love these types of comments ;-)

> Here's what hello.o looks like when hello.c uses
> __declspec(dllimport) (and hwstr.c uses __declspec(dllexport)).
> Recall that this configuration works as expected.

Right, because we're effectively telling gcc that hwstr1 is a pointer,
not an array.  That changes how gcc generates code.  Pointers must be
indexed at runtime, arrays may be indexed at compile time.

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