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From: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 11:11:53 -0500
To: "Fifer, Eric" <EFifer@sanwaint.com>
Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Using h_errno, errno etc Cygwin DLL globals [Re: Making wget]
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In-Reply-To: <779F20BCCE5AD31186A50008C75D99791716C8@SILLDN_MAIL1>; from EFifer@sanwaint.com on Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 01:03:31PM -0000

On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 01:03:31PM -0000, Fifer, Eric wrote:
>
>Since we're on the topic of netdb.h and h_errno, has anyone
>noticed that in the recent snapshots the symbol that appears
>in libcygwin.a doesn't agree with the definition in netdb.h:
>
>  nm libcygwin.a | grep h_errno
>
>    00000000 ? __imp__h_errno
>  
>  netdb.h
>
>    extern int * __imp_h_errno;
>    #define h_errno (*__imp_h_errno)
>                 
>I think it should be (s/_h/__h/):
>
>    extern int * __imp__h_errno;
>    #define h_errno (*__imp__h_errno)
>
>or reworked as:
>
>    extern int __declspec(dllimport) h_errno;

Care to submit a patch?

cgf

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