Re: Patch to enable libgcj.dll for MinGW

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Ranjit Mathew writes:
 > On 9/7/05, TJ Laurenzo <tlaurenzo@gmail.com> wrote:
 > > As has been pointed out earlier, this situation really *should* work,
 > > regardless of whether it is generally useful or not.  According to
 > > Danny, PE binutils supports the necessary semantics to make this work
 > > with the caveat that it might screw up dllimport/dllexport.  Yet it
 > > seems that the c++ compiler is not emitting code that defines these
 > > symbols appropriately.  Here is the output from nm on natLogger.o
 > [...]
 > > This is starting to look like a C++ compiler bug.  When I get a
 > > moment, I'll distill this down to a simple example and shoot it over
 > > to the appropriate place (can anyone tell me where that is?).
 > 
 > The GCC bugzilla (http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/) is the place to
 > report GCC bugs. This *could* be related to the COMDAT
 > patches by Julian Brown, so you might want to directly bounce
 > it off him to see if he can provide an insight into this problem.

It's not a good idea to only post a Bugzilla entry.  Talk to the gcc
mailing list to find out if this really should work, and if anyone
knows about any related problems.

Andrew.