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Subject: RE: function pointers & DLL's
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 18:07:51 +0400
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> >
> > For GCC (at least :-) __declspec(dllimport) is optional for functions but
> > is mandatory for variables. The side-effect of the above is, that function
> > address is no more static and cannot be used as static initializer, e.g.
> > in function dispatch table like
> >
> That's not right. Paul Sokolvsky has written an ld patch named auto-import
> initial for mingw, which is adapted to cygwin. Look into the appended files.
> If you like, you can have this patched ld by mail and try it out.
>

Ehem ... what exactly is not right? If this patch is already included in
current Cygwin GCC/binutils - granted, I have not tried it lately. If not - my
statement is still correct for the curent GCC.

-andrej


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