On Sun, 09 Nov 2008, Szak�ts Viktor wrote: Hi Viktor,
> I like the second one better, as it clears the ambiguity > and even the requirement to use -n switch when someone > defines MAIN(). So there would be one thing less to worry > about. First choice however is more Clipper compatible, > so IMO we should do it. Please remember that current support for startup function is a hack which works only with few C compilers and even for them does not work correctly in all cases and we had to add yet another hack: -n1 switch which disable it for DLLs because DLL functions where registered before normal functions and 1-st dll function was used as startup one. Now we have two different behaviors which may cause portability problems for Harbour code and this is probably even bigger problem then strict Clipper compatibility. This problem cannot be resolved at compile time. To make it well we need linker wrapper which will extract first Harbour function from linked modules and mark it as startup one. I added such functionality to hb* scripts and this is the only one method which works in all conditions and does not dependent on the order of init code execution. Anyhow it works only for GCC. For backward compatibility with older Harbour code I gave main() higher priority then 1-st linked function but it can be removed. This feature exists for many years and works well. So far no one reported that it's a problem. I think it should be default for all platforms/C compilers. BTW If we want to keep -n1 then it should be changed to -n2 and simply -n1 should be the same as -n and -n0 should work like -n- to make it compatible with other switches. best regards, Przemek _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
