FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT schemamania.org>]

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 18:39:29 -0600, "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry AT mac.com>
wrote:
> >Your compiler would produce a module with no function;  the linker
> >would scoop it up but no name would be exported.  That approach would
> >be slightly better, I assert, because 
> >
> >1.  the names are preserved
> >2.  the preprocessor isn't interceding in linkage
> >3.  the resulting binary is smaller
> 
> This approach was actually my first thought before I went the redefining
> 
> route.  If it's cleaner to you, it works great for me and I include a
> patch to do that below.  I've omitted the HAVE_AUTOCONF bit since if I
> understand correctly it will be redundant:  systems that use autoconf to
> decide they don't need the functions will never bother to compile them
> and thus won't see that anyway; is that correct?

Craig, thanks for the patch.  I'm going to hold it at least until I branch
0.61.  

Nick, now that you've seen the long and long of this, I'd like to hear
what you think.  

VMS and Win32 are probably the only non-autoconf environments we'll see,
and the Win32 libraries are unlikely ever to need anything from
replacements.  Thus afaict this is a VMS-only issue.  

--jkl