Re: gettext patches for cygwin #4: accessing fields of exported structs/arrays

[Charles Wilson]

Bruno Haible wrote:
> Charles Wilson wrote:
> > By introducing C++ compilation, you've wandered into the 
> > hell that is C++ ABI variation.
>
> No, I avoid these problems:
>   - For gettext's private DLLs (gettextlib and gettextsrc), these DLLs
>     carry version numbers that are incremented in each release.

well,  yeah -- those are private.  Nobody else is "allowed" to use them; 
you can do whatever you want.

>   - For gettext's public DLL (gettextpo), the C++ namemangling problem is
>     avoided by using    extern "C" {}  in the header file,

Ack.

> and the
>     struct layout ABI problem is avoided by not declaring structs in
>     that header file.

Ack.

Thanks for the explanation.  I still don't *like* the g++ workaround, 
but I'm no longer worried it breaking the ABI.

--
Chuck