Re: [PATCH] Modify mingw_main() workaround to avoid link errors

From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Jul 26, 2008, 16:07 UTC
Message-ID: <65E5BA28-DAB0-4731-A6DA-DBE646367FBF@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807261515290.26810@eeepc-johanness>

On Jul 26, 2008, at 3:17 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
>
>> -#define main(c,v) main(int argc, const char **argv) \
>> +#define main(c,v) dummy_decl_mingw_main(); \
>
> What is this dummy_*() statement supposed to do?

Avoid compile errors.  The original statement is

    int main( ...

But we want

    static int mingw_main( ...

So we need to first get rid of the original int, before we can start the static decl. We get rid by completing the original int with the dummy_decl_mingw_main(); to a full function decl.

	Steffen