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Re: minires-0.95 - a new package ready for review
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:26:24PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Does ld on Cygwin support weak symbols? Or is it possible to
> > define __imp__res_query additionally to __imp____res_query?
>
> Very interesting, thanks.
> Apparently ld can do it, either with a DEF file (yuck, dll only?)
That would be no problem! Even on Linux, the static libresolv.a
lib has the __res_query symbol *only*. The weak reference is
only defined in the shared library. If we have a a workaround for
the DLL, that would be enough :-)
> I had thought about adding a symbol.
> One solution to define the additional symbol is to use something
> like the newsym script in cygwin.
> Btw, could cygwin use weak symbols instead of newsym?
Dunno. If weak symbols are not supported, I guess the answer is no.
But the idea to use something similar as newsym is cool.
Corinna
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