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Re: [aida_s@mx12.freecom.ne.jp: A serious bug of "ld --enable-auto-import"]



> Urk.

I love these types of comments ;-)

> Here's what hello.o looks like when hello.c uses
> __declspec(dllimport) (and hwstr.c uses __declspec(dllexport)).
> Recall that this configuration works as expected.

Right, because we're effectively telling gcc that hwstr1 is a pointer,
not an array.  That changes how gcc generates code.  Pointers must be
indexed at runtime, arrays may be indexed at compile time.

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