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Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 21:40:53 -0400
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: mdejong AT cygnus DOT com
CC: cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
In-reply-to: <Pine.SOL.3.91.1000705183635.5672O@cse.cygnus.com> (message from
	Mo DeJong on Wed, 5 Jul 2000 18:37:22 -0700 (PDT))
Subject: Re: Cygwin compiler problem.
References:  <Pine DOT SOL DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 1000705183635 DOT 5672O AT cse DOT cygnus DOT com>


> DeviceDriver DD = {
>     "Canvas",
>     GetDrawable

THe problem is that importing *data* tells the compiler to change a
reference to the data into a dereference of a pointer to the data
(it's the pointer you import, not the address itself).  Since the
address the pointer points to cannot be known at compile time, the
compiler cannot store that pointer in the statically initialized
structure DD.