when the problem is likely a bug in the linker…

Windows FAIL.

It has been suggested the current thing I’m trying to fix is actually a bug in the Microsoft linker…. and I’m quite willing to believe that.

I wonder if I can expense rehab if this Windows port leads to a drinking problem….

11 Responses to “when the problem is likely a bug in the linker…”

  1. TimC Says:

    Gah! Windows port!

    I much prefer tawny. But even then. Windows port? What were you thinking?!

  2. MacPlusG3 Says:

    *i’m* not the one….

    oh wait, what was *i* thinking… well, i am thinking about more whisky…

  3. TimC Says:

    That’s funny. I was thinking *exactly* the same thing.

  4. Antony Curtis Says:

    May not entirely be the linker’s fault… can be a programmer error.
    Windows does some of the most arse-backwards things to support dynamic link libraries… The trouble comes because so few people understand the reason why they chose to solve the issues in their special way…

  5. LinuxJedi Says:

    Is all this Windows porting making you feel unclean yet?

  6. MacPlusG3 Says:

    Yes, very, very unclean. No matter how hard I scrub, it’s just so hard to get it off.

  7. MacPlusG3 Says:

    and why couldn’t they have just chosen sane ways to do things… honestly, beyond a year or three, who will care about some weird backwards compat tihng anyway.

  8. LinuxJedi Says:

    Just think, it could be worse… actually scrap that…

    You do know of course that now you are porting cluster us guys that code cluster tools are going to have to port as well! :)

  9. MacPlusG3 Says:

    i vote we instead just blast windows off the face of the earth and drink in celebration.

  10. LinuxJedi Says:

    I’m in favour, but then what can we hurl abuse at? OS X?

  11. MacPlusG3 Says:

    why of course it can be OS X. Let’s start with fsync() :)

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