[Mingw-users] Re: Assignment to pointers to __stdcall functions

[Ranjit M. <rm...@ho...>]

FWIW, I'm also seeing the same problem with GCC 3.2 on Linux
but not with GCC 2.95.3.

Should I file a PR about this?

Ranjit.


Ranjit Mathew wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>     For even more fun, consider the following
> source file ("bar.c"):
> -------------------------- 8< -----------------------------
> extern int * (__attribute__((stdcall)) *fooPtr)( void);
> 
> int * __attribute__((stdcall)) myFn01( void) { return 0; }
> 
> void snafu( void)
> {
>     fooPtr = myFn01;
> }
> -------------------------- 8< -----------------------------
> 
> This is an equivalent form that exhibits the same problem with
> g++ (but not gcc).
> 
> The fun part is that if you replace all "stdcall" by
> "cdecl" the problem disappears, while it reappears if
> you replace it with "fastcall" instead!
> 
> This leads me to believe that this is a target-specific
> problem and not a general problem in the C++ front-end.
> 
> Sincerely Yours,
> Ranjit.
> 

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