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From: "Karl M" <karlm30 AT hotmail DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: Re[4]: Visual Studio linking
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 11:41:02 -0700
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Hi Dave...

Now be honest Dave...How do you really feel about this? :.)

IANAT (I am not a therapist).

Enjoy,

...Karl


>From: "Dave Korn" <dk AT artimi DOT com>
>To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
>Subject: RE: Re[4]: Visual Studio linking
>Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 14:54:47 +0100
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Alastair Growcott
> > Sent: 02 June 2004 14:44
> > To: cygwin
> > Subject: Re[4]: Visual Studio linking
> >
> > Conclusions:
>
>Real Conclusion:
>
>   You are completely wasting your time in a pointless exercise of cobbling
>together a bunch of completely incompatible bits of code that just happen 
>to
>have the same function names.
>
>   The internals of C runtime libraries and startup code contain deep black
>magic and you haven't a hope in hell of getting gcc lib bits to play nicely
>with msvc lib bits.  Even if you managed to translate the names, that
>doesn't mean the functions expect the same data as arguments nor will they
>use the same data structures in memory.
>
>   Sorry to be so negative, but it really isn't worth pursuing.
>
>     cheers,
>       DaveK
>--
>Can't think of a witty .sigline today....
>
>
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