Subject: RE: .def files for stdcall functions (was: linking problems with
From: [email-masked] (Valery Fine)

17 Sep 1997 02:41:12 -0700
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To: Colin Peters <[email-masked]>,
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On 17 Sep 97 at 15:45, Colin Peters wrote:

> Gunther Ebert[SMTP:[email-masked]] 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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