[vorbis-dev] new DLL additions in core libs

[Chris Wolf]

On 9/13/2001 at 11:55 AM Brian Havard wrote:

>>
>>OK.  So the basic problem is that static externs are unsharable?  
>
>That doesn't sound right. It should work if (and only if) the variables are
>declared to the dll's user using __declspec(dllimport).

I'm afraid that's not really true.  That is just an optimization.
To quote Microsoft's documentation:

>You do not need to use _declspec(dllimport) for your code to compile
>correctly, but doing so allows the compiler to generate better code. The
>compiler is able to generate better code because it knows for sure whether
>a function exists in a DLL or not, so the compiler can produce codes that
>skip a level of indirection that would normally be present in a function
>call that crossed a DLL boundary. 

--- >8 ----
List archives:  http://www.xiph.org/archives/
Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/
To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-dev-request at xiph.org'
containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body.  No subject is needed.
Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.