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

[Bruno Haible]

Charles Wilson wrote:
> I'm not sure HOW g++ is able to finesse this issue, but it does so at 
> the cost of ABI compatibility.  The old C-only gettext DLL had a C ABI; 
> thus a DLL compiled by mingw was usable by intel, borland, or msvc 
> compilers.  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.
  - For gettext's public DLL (gettextpo), the C++ namemangling problem is
    avoided by using    extern "C" {}  in the header file, and the
    struct layout ABI problem is avoided by not declaring structs in
    that header file.

Bruno