From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: gcc -pipe. Once again :-)
23 Apr 1998 23:58:42 -0700
Message-ID: <01BD6F6C.710E36F0.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@drs>
To: "'Geoffrey Noer'" <noer AT cygnus DOT com>
Cc: "cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com" <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com>

Geoffrey Noer wrote:
> Normally in the exports list, there is no difference between _foo and
> foo.  This introduces one which seems ill-advised to me.  I'm tempted

I think this aliasing is in favor of MS's "oldname" name conventions. 
Cygwin doesn't need it.


> to suggest keeping an #ifdef __CYGWIN32__ in pexecute.c and rename
> _pipe to msvc_pipe or some other name we could come up with?
>
> Opinions?

No! pipe() and _pipe() are two _different_ calls! The first one is 
unix-compatible, the second one - msvc-compatible, name by name with a 
different syntax.

Also, msvc-generated dlls never have extra underscores prepended to an 
export names.

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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia.