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To: Paul Sokolovsky <paul-ml@is.lg.ua>, James Stern <jsternitg@yahoo.com>,
        cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Re[2]: Importing a variable from a DLL 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Aug 1999 13:30:13 +0400."
             <12562.990826@is.lg.ua> 
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 08:40:42 -0500
From: Mumit Khan <khan@xraylith.wisc.EDU>

Paul Sokolovsky <paul-ml@is.lg.ua> writes:
> 
>     But at least there might be achieved proper diagnostics of such
> issues, if dlltool would correctly mark data symbols in def, that
> implib would only contain __imp_<symbol> and not <symbol>, and we'd
> get link error when linking with object which doesn't have
> __declspec(dllimport) on that symbol, and not runtime segfaults,
> as we have now.

Sure, but it doesn't solve James' problem. If James could create the
import libraries with all the data marked DATA, it would imply he
already *knows* which these data items are! Once you know, one tricky
part of porting a legacy application over -- after this, it's a matter 
of searching for the symbol names and attaching dllimport attribute
in user code.

However, your point is well taken that we should go and fix dlltool.
I believe I did fix it locally at one point, but definitely didn't
submit the changes (don't remember why, perhaps it didn't work).
Contributions welcome of course.

>     It would be better just use ELF and forget about all the gore.
> But rules defined by others.

Welcome to real life.

Regards,
Mumit


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