Re: [Mingw-users] Annouce: Updated Binutils 2.13.90

[Danny S. <dan...@cl...>]

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From: "TAMURA Kent" <ken...@ha...>
To: "Mingw" <min...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, 19 December 2002 06:11
Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] Annouce: Updated Binutils 2.13.90


>
> > since 2.13 release.  Of these, the most important to mingw since the
last
> > update is the introduction of "pseudo-relocs", which fixes problems
> > with auto-importing of data arrays and structures/classes from
dll's.
> > This feature requires additional runtime support in startup code to
work;
> > that support is currently under test.
>
> It is very interesting.  Does Mingw runtime already have the
> addiotional support?

Not currently.  It works in my sandbox.  The same basic code  works on
cygwin.    But I'd like to shake out any loose bits from the  binutils
side first.   Some of the support for auto-importing data symbols
_without_ an implib is still really new

The people who have put this all together are Cygwin developers: Egor
Duda, Ralf Habacker, with a lot of constructive review from Charles
Wilson.  I'm just a good listener

This feature is especially important for C++, where sometimes we may
need to import "artificial" (compiler generated) data symbols and there
is now no way the user can mark those with a  __declspec(dllimport)

Danny
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