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Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 11:22:16 +0200 (W. Europe Daylight Time)
From: Jesper Eskilson <jojo AT virtutech DOT com>
To: Alan Hourihane <alanh AT fairlite DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
cc: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: function pointers & DLL's
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On Sun, 6 May 2001, Alan Hourihane wrote:

> Everything works fine. But what I'm trying to do is find a way at the linker
> stage that negates me having to make these __declspec statements. Is there
> any way this is possible ?

For VC++ (at least) __declspec(dllimport) is purely optional and never
required. The only this they do is to enable the compiler to skip an
indirection in the jump and generate a slightly more efficient jump.

/Jesper

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Jesper Eskilson                                         jojo AT virtutech DOT se
Virtutech                                         http://www.virtutech.se
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