[PATCH 64bit] Fix speclib for x86_64

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Sun Feb 17 16:52:00 GMT 2013


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?

cgf



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