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RE: fastcall
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Danny Smith" <danny_r_smith_2001 at yahoo dot co dot nz>,"cygwin-apps" <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 08:54:00 +1000
- Subject: RE: fastcall
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Danny Smith [mailto:danny_r_smith_2001@yahoo.co.nz]
> Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 8:29 AM
> In order to get it into official sources, the ReactOS team
> will need some support.
What sort of support can we offer? I'm happy to vouch that 'it works for
me'. We've been round this one before with the --auto-import patch after
all.
> For the fastcall to work, binutils support is also needed.
> There is a big problem with binutils because of the vacuum
> left by DJ stepping down as w32 maintainer. There are
> currently bugs in binutils with respect to ld --shared (or
> at least there was two weeks ago and has been since 17 [UTC]
> December).
>
> Related frustrations: ReactOs team has submitted several
> relatively non-intrusive patches for useful windres
> improvements that have not been seriously reviewed. My patch
> for --exclude-all-libs lingered into forgetfullness. Ditto
> for a ReactOs patch for checksums in pe-executables.
Which would be wonderful things to have.
> Chris asked the question a while ago: "Wanna be a binutils
> maintainer".
Are you asking if someone here can step up? I'd love to, but I suspect I
don't have the time to do a good job. I'm struggling to answer all
setup.exe related questions at the moment. Also, I think the issue is
needing the binutils w32 maintainer, not a cygwin port maintainer, and
frankly, I've no idea what sort of time commitment that entails. If
someone (perhaps DJ) can clarify that I'll consider stepping up for that
maintainership - on the basis of someone being better than no-one, even
if I'm a bit slow on response for them.
Rob