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Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2025 10:39:18 +0200
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Subject: Re: new c++ new/delete overloads need wrapping?
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On Jul 28 12:57, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2025, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> > Unless there's some automatism referencing the __wrap_X functions even
> > if the --wrap option isn't present, I don't see this incompatibility as
> > much of a problem.  We're trying to maintain backward compat, but that
> > doesn't mean an executable created under  and for a newer Cygwin DLL
> > has to run under an older DLL.
> 
> OK, then the patch adds support for wrapping these functions ends up in a
> stable Cygwin release, then GCC is updated to add additional --wrap
> parameters for them, and that GCC and binaries it produces will no longer
> be compatible with older Cygwin DLLs.

*iff* the --wrap option is used with functions not provided by older
DLLs, right?  Not for some reason generally incompatible, I hope...


Corinna

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