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| author | Daniel Klauer <daniel.c.klauer@web.de> | 2015-01-05 09:41:48 +0000 |
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| committer | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2015-01-05 09:41:48 +0000 |
| commit | c1724c7fd39d85ccc1f94a0cd7bc25b19aa43ffd (patch) | |
| tree | de145a11cfc23cd25b1487a9aec10ea8861c93a4 /binutils/doc | |
| parent | f8ed3ac5f2600f037bff4ba01e6c92257d4a4fae (diff) | |
Corrects the description of the --kill-at option of dlltool.
PR binutils/17489
* doc/binutils.texi (dlltool): Correct description of --kill-at
option.
Diffstat (limited to 'binutils/doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | binutils/doc/binutils.texi | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi index 6ae5992a57..a5bfd4c0b4 100644 --- a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi +++ b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi @@ -4092,10 +4092,14 @@ party DLLs that were built with MS-Windows tools. @item -k @itemx --kill-at -Specifies that when @command{dlltool} is creating the exports file it -should not append the string @samp{@@ <number>}. These numbers are -called ordinal numbers and they represent another way of accessing the -function in a DLL, other than by name. +Specifies that @samp{@@<number>} suffixes should be omitted from the names +of stdcall functions that will be imported from the DLL. This is +useful when creating an import library for a DLL which exports stdcall +functions but without the usual @samp{@@<number>} symbol name suffix. + +This does not change the naming of symbols provided by the import library +to programs linked against it, but only the entries in the import table +(ie the .idata section). @item -A @itemx --add-stdcall-alias |