[perl #123626] [PATCH] export data symbols as data on Win32

On Mon Jan 19 15:34:28 2015, bulk88 wrote:
> Patch attached, note this patch will turn the SDBM crash on VC
> unthreaded win32 perl into a link failure.

Works fine for me (VC++ and GCC). My only question is why the 32 character limit on the symbol names? Why not just tack " DATA" onto the end of the name instead of trying to line up all the "DATA"s in the same column? I don't think that makes an excessive mess of the .def file, and avoids any possible future problems. (Any such problems wouldn't be difficult to find or fix, but why suffer them at all just for the sake of slightly beautifying the .def file?)

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• [perl #123626] [PATCH] export data symbols as data on Win32 by Steve Hay via RT
• [perl #123626] [PATCH] export data symbols as data on Win32 by bulk88 via RT
• [perl #123626] [PATCH] export data symbols as data on Win32 by Father Chrysostomos via RT
• [perl #123626] [PATCH] export data symbols as data on Win32 by bulk88 via RT
• [perl #123626] [PATCH] export data symbols as data on Win32 by Steve Hay via RT