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Re: Compile warning in times.cc and strace.exe compile problem


On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 01:34:22PM -0600, Mumit Khan wrote:
>John Fortin <fortinj@attglobal.net> writes:
>> Chris Faylor wrote:
>> > 
>> > On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 10:14:59AM -0500, John Fortin wrote:
>> > >When I compile cygwin from the cvs extract, times.cc gets the following:
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >gcc -c -g -O2 -o ./times.o times.cc
>> > >/e/src/winsup/cygwin/times.cc:20: warning: inconsistent dll linkage for
>> > >`time_t
>> > >_timezone'. dllexport assumed.
>> > >/e/src/winsup/cygwin/times.cc:21: warning: inconsistent dll linkage for
>> > >`int _da
>> > >ylight'. dllexport assumed.
>> 
>> I'm using (I think ?) the newlib from CVS which was created when I did
>> 'cvs get winsup'.
>> Is this the correct version?
>
>This happens due to dllimport/export override rules, and typically
>results in the correct behaviour (as is the case with Cygwin DLL).
>The warning is there only to make sure developers know what's happening 
>internally, and I added it since VC++ does the same.

I know why it happens.  I don't know why it is happening to John, though.
Have you looked at the code?  If there is something wrong that is resulting
in a warning, then a patch would be appreciated.

cgf

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