Re: ld-auto-import documentation update

[Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>]

Ralf Habacker wrote:
> Charles Wilson writes:
>
> +2. Sometimes, it is useful to rename exports.  For instance, the cygwin
> +kernel does this regularly: a symbol @samp{_foo} will be exported as
> +@samp{_foo}, but also as @samp{foo} by using special directives in the
> +DEF file when creating the import library.  This ability is not
> +present without import libs.
>
> This isn't true. The gcc manual in
> void __f () { /* do something */; }
> void f () __attribute__ ((weak, alias ("__f")));
>
> declares f to be a weak alias for __f. In C++, the mangled name for the target
> must be used.
And it actually works as advertised on cygwin?  Cool.  Thanks for the 
correction.  (I knew you could do this on ELF, but windows?  Neato.)

--Chuck