64bit: cygstdc++-6.dll

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Apr 10 18:16, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr 10 16:49, Dave Korn wrote:
> > On 10/04/2013 10:57, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> > 
> > > Could you explain the necessity of the dllimport's in the same patch?
> > 
> >   The idea is to one day be able to move away from having auto-import enabled
> > by default in binutils, so that .rdata can go back into the read-only-mapped
> > .rdata section and be shared between processes as it ought.
> 
> Doesn't that affect applications which use something like
> 
>   extern int optind;
> 
> in their code?  Kai did quite a job to get this working on x86_64 by
> implementing the medium/large code models for x86_64, and Cygwin's
> x86_64 gcc uses the medium code model by default.  Disabling this again
> would be rather counterproductive.

What about this issue?  If the idea is to revert all automatism which
allows to declare external variables in DLL s without dllimport, then
I don't think that's a good idea for Cygwin.

If I misunderstand the issue, please say so.


Corinna

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