Re: glib\guitls.h, atexit and the windows DDK

[Rick Jones <rick jones2 hp com>]

Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> Rick Jones writes:
>  > the first complaint out of the 
>  > compiler (among many :) is that in line 239 of gutils.h atexit is being 
>  > redefined with different type modifiers (error C2373)
>
> Hmm, does it help to make the declaration
>  int __cdecl atexit(void (__cdecl *)(void));
> instead?

I thought about trying that, which then got me in the "fun" of trying to 
use notepad :)  I'll see about moving the file around to where it can be 
edited with something useful.

>  > Notepad is useless for looking at the include file (pointers on that 
>  > score most welcome)
>
> Notepad doesn't handle the Unixish line-endings of just one newline
> (linefeed) character. Wordpad handles them fine, but presumably you
> want some real text editor instead. (Or an IDE, even.)

Got emacs?-)  I'd not heard of wordpad - and it doesn't seem to be on 
the system to which I have access - pointer?  I'm enough of a stone 
knives and bearskins type I don't really care to get involved in an IDE.

>  > #ifdef G_OS_WIN32
>  > /* It's a bad idea to wrap atexit() on Windows. If the GLib DLL calls
>  >   * atexit(), the function will be called when the GLib DLL is detached
>  >   * from the program, which is not what the caller wants. The caller
>  >   * wants the function to be called when it *itself* exits (or is
>  >   * detached, in case the caller, too, is a DLL).
>  >   */
>  > int atexit (void (*)(void));
>  > #define g_atexit(func) atexit(func)
>  > #endif
>  > 
>  > am I just missing something really simple? I would have thought that 
>  > would be an extern int right? 
>
> "an" extern int? atexit() is a function.

sloppy wording on my part, sorry.

>

all the good discussion of g_atexit deleted.  indeed, in my previous 
searches of the archives etc I did come across those points about 
g_atexit/atexit.  At present I've no particular plans to use [g_]atexit, 
just want to get the DDK compiler happy with the .h file :)

thanks,

rick jones