Re: StdCall and pragma Import_Function

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:04:15 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> On 19.08.11 21:43, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>   it indeed uses StdCall convention. The corresponding output of dumpbin is:
> 
>> BTW, you will have problems with making bindings to this mess portable. I
>> had similar issues with poorly designed Glib. They too have the linkage
>> names varying from platform to platform. I solved that by using GNU linker
>> weak references and wrappers. Not nice, but they refused to fix the
>> problem.
> 
> Did you mention the text ".*Ada.*" when asking?  .->

Of course not! (:-)) I just pointed out that some functions have one
external name under Win32 and another under Linux. They "wisely" used
#define to achieve this fantastic effect. I don't even asked them to fix
the mess, only to add an alias name to either distribution. The answer was
"won't do it".

Having said that, I used Glib in order to do things the Ada standard
library does wrong. Its directories (devices, file system) and OS calls
packages are designed OS-dependent, which is unacceptable. Glib by all its
drawbacks at least tries to make this right.

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de