Re: [Ethereal-dev] Was packet-rtnet fixed and I missed it?

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

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?