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Re: Tonight's snapshot


I don't think I want to break binary compatibility quite yet.  I agree
that it would be nice to ensure that things are working correctly.

I'd be grateful to anyone who could look into this.

cgf

On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 05:16:21PM -0500, Mumit Khan wrote:
>Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> writes:
>> I hope that the snapshots are getting close to release quality.
>> Please give them a try and let me know.
>
>It would be nice if we could get rid of cygwin_non_cygwin_dll_entry@12
>by next release! However, that will mean breaking binary compat, so 
>may not be an option. Failing that, it really needs to be looked at
>to make sure we're doing everything needed there right now (ie., init'
>ing all the stuff that's needed for a Cygwin DLL loaded by non-cygwin
>app/DLL).
>
>Also, some test runs with gcc-2.95 pre-release snapshots will be quite
>useful. 
>
>Oh, and if we are breaking binary compat, then we should take the 
>opportunity to switch over to using vtable thunks.  
>
>I'm not sure if/when I'll time to do either, so any takers?

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