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[Manuel M. T. Chakravarty]

"Simon Marlow" <simonmar@microsoft.com> wrote,

> > Thu, 9 Aug 2001 18:47:40 -0700, Manuel Chakravarty 
> > <chak@glass.cse.ogi.edu> pisze:
> > 
> > >   Added SimonM's explanation about f.e.d. stubs.
> > 
> > I don't understand the explanation. Why the code is written to a
> > separate file instead of *.hc?
> 
> Unfortunately I don't think we can do that - you can't write a normal C
> function in a .hc file, because the mangler tends to, well, mangle it.

From my last inspection of the mangler I remember that it
just throws away functions whose name doesn't fit any of its
patterns.  It should be easy to just not throw away these
functions - in fact that's what I changed it to do on
x86/Solaris as some system .h files contain function
definitions on that platform.  I can't see why this
shouldn't be generally possible.

Cheers,
Manuel