Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT

On 02/16/2014 07:03 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2014-02-15 17:48:00 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Marco Atzeri <marco(dot)atzeri(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>>> 32 $ grep -rH in6addr_any *
>>> cygwin/in6.h:extern const struct in6_addr in6addr_any;
>>> cygwin/version.h: in6addr_any, in6addr_loopback.
>>
>> So how come there's a declspec on the getopt.h variables, but not this
>> one?
>
> Well, those are real constants, so they probably are fully contained in
> the static link library, no need to dynamically resolve them.

If they're externs that're then defined in a single module, that's not
the case.

Only if they're *not* declared extern, and thus added to each
compilation unit then de-duplicated during linking, may they be safely
referred to without a __declspec(dllimport) because each module gets its
own copy.

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