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Re: [PATCH 64bit] Fix speclib for x86_64


On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 06:09:44PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Feb 17 11:52, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 02:41:41PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >On Feb 17 04:46, Yaakov wrote:
>> >
>> >> 2013-02-16  Yaakov Selkowitz  <yselkowitz@...>
>> >> 
>> >> 	* Makefile.in (libcygwin.a): Move --target flag from here...
>> >> 	(toolopts): to here, to be used by both mkimport and speclib.
>> >> 	* speclib: Omit leading underscore in symbol names on x86_64.
>> >
>> >The Makefile patch is fine, but for the speclib change I wonder why
>> >we should omit the leading underscore.  If you remove the underscore,
>> >you're polluting the application namespace.  Is there really a good
>> >reason to do that?  Did I miss something?
>> 
>> Doesn't the x86_64 target forego leading underscores on normal variable
>> names?
>
>My dictionary returns ambiguous results for the word "forego",
>so I answer that generically:

I mispelled "forgo".

>On x86_64 there's no underscore prepended to symbols.

So, why would we add an underscore?  Does binutils add underscores to
these *_dll_iname symbols anyway?

cgf


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