Re: [Mingw-users] Assembler problem with gcc 3.1

[Luke D. <cod...@ho...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Earnie Boyd" <ear...@ya...>
To: "Danny Smith" <dan...@ya...>
Cc: "Andrew Begel" <ab...@ee...>;
<min...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] Assembler problem with gcc 3.1

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>
> Hmm, how about doing a define in the specs file?  Something like
>   -D_DLLIMPORT="extern __attribute__((dllimport))"
>   -D_DLLEXPORT="__attribute__((dllexport))"
> then if it changes again, the change can be internal rather than
> external.  I've always thought that this is the way it should have been,
> I just never did anything about it.
>
> Earnie.
>

That would be okay, but it would need to be very prominently advertised to
actually get people to use it. Users would also need to be reminded that
"class _DLLIMPORT Foo" wouldn't work, and similarly with "friend"
declarations. Of course it would be nice to keep the old behaviour (like
MSVC?) but it may be too difficult.

Luke