Re: [Mingw-users] DEF file internalname example

[Carlo W. <ca...@al...>]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 09:48:35PM +1200, Danny Smith wrote:
> Please post this to binutils list asking for a reversion of the two
> patches.
> I can provide another example where the changes break expected
> behaviour, with def file like
> 
> LIBRARY foo.dll
> EXPORTS
>    rooted = MSVCRT.sqrt
> IMPORTS
>    MSVCRT.dll.sqrt
> 
> I pulled out an old (1996), but very helpful  MSDN article called "DLL
> for beginners", authoured by Debabrata Sarma which also  confirms what
> you have indicated.
> 
> Thanks for pursuing this.

Nevertheless, the patch isn't THAT bad - because already
one needs to craft a special .def file for use with mingw
(one needs to remove the starting underscores now).

But I agree that the meaning of 'internal name' has not
been understood by me at first - and therefore that this
patch gives a different meaning to the 'internal name'
as used in the .def file.

But, as you said in your next post: its damn handy to be
able to specify a difference (or somehow escape the --kill-at
and --add-underscore) for individual symbols.
No matter how you do that though, the meaning of the .def
file would become different from what MS intended it to mean.

-- 
Carlo Wood <ca...@al...>