On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 6:11 AM, Herbert Valerio Riedel
Personally, I think this was a very questionable decision on Microsoft's part, as this way you effectively destroy any chance to simply compile existing POSIX-compatible source code for no good reason...
POSIX doesn't specify asm or linker level symbols, only C API. Most Unix-like platforms have an underscore on the front of symbol names at link level, so that the API doesn't have to avoid random platform-specific register names or the assembler need to have magic prefixes on either symbols or register names. So in fact, by adding the prefix underscore they are *more* compatible with Unix linkage, and presumably the FFI for Windows needs to start adding it the way the one for Unix does. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net