Jeffrey Altman wrote: > The KFW libraries do not have ordinals that are fixed to specific values > via assignment in the .DEF file. This is the result of conflicts which > occurred when various forks of the code base in the late 90s resulted in > different binary distributions assigning different ordinal values to the > same function or different functions to the same ordinal value. As a > result applications which were linked against one distribution and then > run with the libraries from another distribution would often crash. > > In response all of the ordinal assignments were removed in order to get > rid of the expectation that ordinals would remain fixed from release to > release. > > It has been almost a decade since then and the number of forked > distributions has decreased dramatically. In addition we are preparing > to support 64-bit Windows, a platform on which there has never been any > forking. As a result, we intend to assign fixed ordinal values again. > > My proposal for generating the ordinal values to use for assignment is > to execute "dumpbin /export" against a pre-beta KFW 3.2.2 distribution > and hard code the assigned ordinal values into each of the .DEF files. > > Does this seem reasonable? > > Are there any objections to the assignment of static ordinal values in > 32-bit KFW? > > Jeffrey Altman
I strongly agree. While this can be problematic at times to maintain it's better than the alternative. This needs to be done for the 32-bit as well as the 64-bit libraries. I'm not clear if to you are proposing that, but by making it now it will avoid future incompatibilities. Danny _______________________________________________ kfwdev mailing list kfwdev@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kfwdev
