On Dec 27, 2011, at 10:55 PM, Kai Tietz <ktiet...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Ping
It was previously approved in the email you quote. See the Ok buried in there.
> 2011/12/15 Dave Korn <dave.korn.cyg...@gmail.com>:
>> On 15/12/2011 17:44, Mike Stump wrote:
>>> On Dec 15, 2011, at 1:43 AM, Kai Tietz wrote:
>>>> This patch takes care that we are using for operator new/delete
>>>> replacement test static version on mingw-targets. As the shared (DLL)
>>>> version isn't able to have operator overload within DLL itself, as a DLL
>>>> is finally-linked for PE-COFF.
>>>
>>>> Ok for apply?
>>>
>>> Not sure who would review this if I don't, so, Ok. That said, if a shared
>>> library C++ type person wants to chime in... I get the feeling this is
>>> unfortunate, and it might have been nice to manage this in some other way,
>>> but, I just want to step back and let others think about it.
>>
>> Well, it's a consequence of how you can't leave undefined references in
>> Windows DLLs at link-time for the loader to just fill in with the first
>> definition it comes across at run-time (as you can on ELF). We have to jump
>> through hoops to get operator new/delete replacement working on Cygwin, and
>> were lucky in that the cygwin1.dll is linked against absolutely everything,
>> so
>> we had somewhere to hang our redirection hooks. Without someone adding some
>> similar amount of infrastructure to MinGW, the only time function replacement
>> can work is for a statically-linked executable, when all definitions are
>> visible in one single link.
>>
>>> * g++.old-deja/g++.brendan/new3.C: Adjust test for mingw
>>> targets to use static-version.
>>
>> s/static-version/static linking/
>>
>>> +// Avoid use of none-overridable new/delete operators in shared
>>
>> s/none-overridable/non-overridable/g
>> s/in shared/in shared link/g
>>
>> Patch looks perfectly sensible to me, but I can't approve.
>>
>> cheers,
>> DaveK
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