From: ian AT cygnus DOT com (Ian Lance Taylor)
Subject: Re: Import hints
18 Feb 1998 22:00:07 -0800
Message-ID: <199802190428.XAA13374.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@subrogation.cygnus.com>
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To: noer AT cygnus DOT com
Cc: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

   From: Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com>
   Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 14:01:18 -0800 (PST)

   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.

Yes, a speed increase is what I would expect.  That 3% speed
difference seems within the bounds of statistical error.  It might be
worth keeping track of these times, if you don't already, to make sure
that this is not an aberration.

Ian