From 2889037071021925333 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,fe953dde0d9fda91 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsrout1.ntli.net!news-in.ntli.net!kibo.news.demon.net!mutlu.news.demon.net!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!devnull From: petebecker@acm.org (Pete Becker) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: n1496 Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 18:44:54 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Dinkumware, Ltd Lines: 23 Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++) Message-ID: <40ACBD1A.7E70CC25@acm.org> References: <86vfiuq081.fsf@Zorthluthik.local.bar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 1085078694 1316 10.0.0.1 (20 May 2004 18:44:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 18:44:54 +0000 (UTC) X-Received: from mulga.cs.mu.oz.au ([128.250.1.22]) by news.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 1BQsXF-0000L5-00 for mail2news@news.news.demon.net; Thu, 20 May 2004 18:44:53 +0000 X-Received: from mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU with ESMTP id i4KIinPT001394; Fri, 21 May 2004 04:44:49 +1000 (EST) X-Received: (from fjh@localhost) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.9/Submit) id i4KIimZF001384; Fri, 21 May 2004 04:44:48 +1000 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Path: comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-Delivered-To: std-c++@ucar.edu X-Accept-Language: en X-Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-mulga_r1 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.1 required=5.2 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.60-mulga_r1 Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.std.c++:383 Niall Douglas wrote: > > You can get away with not specifying dllimport for functions on Win32 but > you *must* specify it for variables. No. The compiler has to know to generate an indirect reference. That doesn't depend on specifying dllimport, but simply on knowing that the variable is imported. The marker that indicates that it's exported is sufficient: the compiler can generate indirect references whenver it accesses exported data (although this would mean that accesses from the same linkage unit would be indirect as well). -- Pete Becker Dinkumware, Ltd. (http://www.dinkumware.com) --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.jamesd.demon.co.uk/csc/faq.html ]