[Nasm-bugs] [Bug 3392380] lack of support for PE-COFF symbol type

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https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392380

andreas.ringlstetter at gmail.com changed:

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--- Comment #2 from andreas.ringlstetter at gmail.com ---
Lack of the type field also triggers a bug with Microsoft's toolchain.

The librarian treats symbols with mismatched type field as incompatible. If an
object in the scope of a library declares an import by declaration of a
function, and an object created by NASM the implementation, then the librarian
keeps both symbols. The first one remains unresolved.

The linker in contrast ignores the type field, but it will never attempt to
resolve a unresolved dependency using a symbol from the same input. (Unless the
linker gets confused, but I have no idea how to induce that state.)

So in the current state it is not possible to assemble a library with a
self-contained C/C++ wrapper around a function compiled for win32 / win64
target with NASM.

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