PATCH pecoff mingw32 dlltool: Add option to create external aliases of DLL imports.

Aaron W. LaFramboise aaron98wiridge9@aaronwl.com
Mon Jul 12 20:48:00 GMT 2004


Nick Clifton wrote:
> I fixed one bug and made two additions.  The bug was that you had not 
> added "p:" to the string passed to getopt_long() in dlltools.c:main() 
> which meant that the -p switch was not recognised.  (The 
> --ext-prefix-alias version was recognised).

Sorry.  I think I must have accidentally trimmed that part from the patch.

> The first addition was to add a few more lines to 
> binutils/testsuite/binutils-all/dlltool.exp which check that the new 
> switch is not rejected.  Note - this is not a proper test of the 
> switch's functionality.  I hope that you might consider submitting a 
> patch to do that yourself.

OK.  I will soon.

> The other addition was a line to binutils/NEWS mentioning the new 
> feature of dlltool.

Thanks a ton.

Aaron W. LaFramboise



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