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Re: ld-auto-import documentation update



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


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