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Re: Using h_errno, errno etc Cygwin DLL globals [Re: Making wget]
- To: "Fifer, Eric" <EFifer at sanwaint dot com>
- Subject: Re: Using h_errno, errno etc Cygwin DLL globals [Re: Making wget]
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 11:11:53 -0500
- Cc: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <779F20BCCE5AD31186A50008C75D99791716C8@SILLDN_MAIL1>
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 01:03:31PM -0000, Fifer, Eric wrote:
>
>Since we're on the topic of netdb.h and h_errno, has anyone
>noticed that in the recent snapshots the symbol that appears
>in libcygwin.a doesn't agree with the definition in netdb.h:
>
> nm libcygwin.a | grep h_errno
>
> 00000000 ? __imp__h_errno
>
> netdb.h
>
> extern int * __imp_h_errno;
> #define h_errno (*__imp_h_errno)
>
>I think it should be (s/_h/__h/):
>
> extern int * __imp__h_errno;
> #define h_errno (*__imp__h_errno)
>
>or reworked as:
>
> extern int __declspec(dllimport) h_errno;
Care to submit a patch?
cgf
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