MinGW PECOFF dlltool: Revert internal_name patches.

Aaron W. LaFramboise aaron98wiridge9@aaronwl.com
Tue Sep 7 23:07:00 GMT 2004


Discussion on the mingw-users@sourceforge.net list has come to a general
consensus that these three patches caused incorrect semantics and should
be reverted:

2004-09-06  Danny Smith  <dannysmith@users.sourceforge.net>

        * doc/binutils.texi (dlltool): Update --add-underscore, --kill-at
        documentation.

2004-09-04  Danny Smith  <dannysmith@users.sourceforge.net>

        * dlltool.c (make_one_lib_file): Test if internal_name was
        specified by user before using it.

2004-09-02  Carlo Wood  <carlo@alinoe.com>

        PR binutils/351
        * dlltool.c (make_one_lib_file): For IDATA6 take the name from
        exp->internal_name if it is present.

See this thread: "Re: DEF file internalname example"
<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=9470769>.

PR binutils/351 is, in fact, not a bug.

There is a valid problem that needs to be addressed though, relating to
importing symbols from MSVC-created DLLs that contain both stdcall and
cdecl exports.  Carlo Wood and I agreed the best prospective way to fix
this is by adding a command line option that causes binutils to do the
same sort of stdcall name translation that MS LINK does.

Aaron W. LaFramboise



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