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Re: [PATCH 64bit] Fix speclib for x86_64
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