[Python-Dev] Looking for a DL_xxPORT macro export (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim_one@email.msn.com
Fri, 25 Aug 2000 22:12:11 -0400

Somebody recently added DL_IMPORT macros to two module init functions that already used their names in DL_EXPORT macros (pyexpat.c and parsermodule.c). On Windows, that yields the result I (naively?) expected: compiler warnings about inconsistent linkage declarations.

This is your basic Undocumented X-Platform Macro Hell, and I suppose the Windows build should be #define'ing USE_DL_EXPORT for these subprojects anyway (?), but if I don't hear a good reason for why both macros are used on the same name in the same file, I'll be irresistibly tempted to just delete the new DL_IMPORT lines. That is, why would we ever use DL_IMPORT on the name of a module init function? They only exist to be exported.

baffled-in-reston-ly y'rs - tim