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Re: [patch] remove atoff


On 08/26/2011 06:04 PM, Eric Blake wrote:

You can remove the declarations from headers, so that new apps won't use
it, but you may NOT remove the function itself, without breaking shared
library clients of newlib like cygwin.


It's impossible for Cygwin to remove very unlikely used symbols from its dll?


Sounds like a serious defect and serious limitation of Cygwin to me.

Ralf


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