[ expat-Bugs-579144 ] DLLs are not drop-in compatible

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Bugs item #579144, was opened at 2002-07-09 11:37
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Category: Build control
Group: Feature Request
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 6
Submitted By: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Assigned to: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Summary: DLLs are not drop-in compatible

Initial Comment:
For Windows DLLs, Expat should be using a .DEF file
instead of __declspec(dllexport) to control the export
of symbols.  Using a .DEF file allows symbols to have
the same ordinal position in the export table of the
DLL regardless of accidents of the compiler's
organization of the table, allowing newer DLLs to
replace older DLLs by simply dropping them in place.

More information on DLL exports:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vccore98/HTML/_core_determine_which_exporting_method_to_use.asp

This feature request is based on an email conversation
with Nick Lehman, following up from:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=1783043


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