Re: [PATCH] msvcp140: Forward __ExceptionPtr* to msvcr120

[Nikolay Sivov]

On 10.08.2016 11:02, Piotr Caban wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> On 08/09/16 18:31, Daniel Lehman wrote:
> > -@ stub -arch=win32 ?__ExceptionPtrCopy@@YAXPAXPBX(a)Z
> > -@ stub -arch=win64 ?__ExceptionPtrCopy@@YAXPEAXPEBX(a)Z
> > +@ cdecl -arch=win32 ?__ExceptionPtrCopy@@YAXPAXPBX(a)Z(ptr ptr)
> > __ExceptionPtrCopy
> > +@ cdecl -arch=win64 ?__ExceptionPtrCopy@@YAXPEAXPEBX(a)Z(ptr ptr)
> > __ExceptionPtrCopy
> > Why can't you just add forwards to msvcr120.dll in spec file?

This is actually a question I've been asking myself a couple of times.
Do we really want to load another runtime dll just to use some of its
exports? Can it potentially break if such dependency does not exist in
native modules?
> Thanks,
> Piotr