From: noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject: Re: Import hints
18 Feb 1998 15:12:25 -0800
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Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> 
> Well, it seems to me that this patch to binutils/dlltool.c is
> appropriate to avoid what appears to be an off by one error in the
> import hint number.
> 
> I would really appreciate if people could try this out.  You need to
> rebuild your .a file (e.g., libcygwin.a) with the new dlltool, and
> then relink your programs, to see if it makes any difference.

What difference should it make?  A speed increase?  I did get a 22m52s
configure reduce to 22m13s.  Everything certainly seems to work
normally.

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Geoffrey Noer
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