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Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 08:10:43 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: don't want leading underscore
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Benjamin,

Where else have you sought solutions to your problems? Have you consulted 
the GCC book? Have you asked your questions in one of the GCC-specific 
forums? If not, look here: <http://gcc.gnu.org/lists.html>.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 08:01 2002-11-05, Benjamin K. wrote:
> > >I want to be binary compatible with linux and other operating systems.
> >
> > Binary compatible? That really has little meaning since there's far 
> more to
> > binary compatibility than how symbols from the program source code are or
> > are not adorned when emitted into the object code files.
>
>Of course, but that is one of the incompatibility.
>
> > Apparently it can be changed. If GCC under Linux doesn't prepend the
> > underscore and under Cygwin it does, then it's at some level configurable.
> > Get the GCC book ("Using and Porting GNUCC").
>
>
>Yes one would think so.
>
> > This excerpt from the output of "gcc -dumpspecs" suggests leading
> > underscores is a configurable option (though I don't know why both
> > "leading-underscore" and "no-leading-underscore" are listed:
>
>The problem is that this command line options didn't work. Of course the 
>only thing that I have to do is to change the compiler source. I've done 
>this already, but this is not the solution. (just changing bsd.h a bit) 
>Than I've the problem getting symbols with underscores. (there should be 
>an working option) This is just a bad implementation ... or should I say 
>BUG in Gcc.

That is a rash and probably unwarranted condemnation.


>Benjamin Kalytta


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