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Re: FIXED: Troubles with DLL's
- To: jeffdb at netzone dot com
- Subject: Re: FIXED: Troubles with DLL's
- From: ian at cygnus dot com
- Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 13:45:42 -0500 (EST)
- CC: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- References: <Pine.SUN.3.93.980325193541.2856C-100000@modi.xraylith.wisc.edu> <3519bde7.20193383@smtp.netzone.com>
[ About __imp_ vs. _imp__ in dlltool ]
>Also in current gas-######.tar.gz sources.
>Thus providing the opportunity for even more confusion.
>And taking us another step away from MS compatibility.
>Should have been switched over once, just before the B19
>release, at the same time as the binary format change,
>then it could have been all done with, now we will
>have headers both ways for years!! <sigh>
Changing the binary format only requires a recompile. Changing the
name of _imp_ requires source code changes. So they are different
issues.
Supporting two names for the symbols costs essentially nothing. I
don't see any critical reason to ever stop supporting either variant.
Ian
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