RE: ld-auto-import documentation update

["Ralf Habacker" <Ralf dot Habacker at freenet dot de>]

> Ralf Habacker wrote:
> > Charles Wilson writes:
> >
> > +2. Sometimes, it is useful to rename exports.  For instance, the cygwin
> > +kernel does this regularly: a symbol @samp{_foo} will be exported as
> > +@samp{_foo}, but also as @samp{foo} by using special directives in the
> > +DEF file when creating the import library.  This ability is not
> > +present without import libs.
> >
> > This isn't true. The gcc manual in
>
> > void __f () { /* do something */; }
> > void f () __attribute__ ((weak, alias ("__f")));
> >
> > declares f to be a weak alias for __f. In C++, the mangled name for
> the target
> > must be used.
>
> And it actually works as advertised on cygwin?  Cool.  Thanks for the
> correction.  (I knew you could do this on ELF, but windows?  Neato.)
>
I've tried the testcase with  gcc version 2.95.3-5 (cygwin special).

Any idead where we should document this feature ? In the cygwin do or in the ld
or ??? At least this is an gcc feature.

Ralf