[Lars Roland <lars.roland@xxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris schrieb:
> Lars Roland wrote:
>
> > What should happen to "flags_set_truth"? IMO we should remove it from 
> > "libethereal.def". The way it is used in dissectors (initializing 
> > static variables, e.g hf_register_info arrays) we can't use it in 
> > plugins on Win32.
>
>
> I.e., unlike the way most (all?) UNIX shared library mechanisms work, 
> with the data being linked statically and the code being linked 
> dynamically, so that the data is at a fixed address, allowing pointers 
> to be used as initializers for static variables, the Windows shared 
> library mechanism links the data dynamically, so that the address isn't 
> known until run time, and the run-time linker doesn't patch up the data 
> at run time?
May be.
I have observed that just adding the keyword __declspec(dllimport) to 
tell the linker that flags_set_truth comes from another dll immediately 
leads to compiler error C2099: "initializer is not a constant", although 
the declaration of flags_set_truth is constified.
Either the MSVC compiler isn't smart enough and just wants to resolve 
initial values at compile time or your scenario applies.