Mail Archives: cygwin/1999/09/18/19:28:05
Richard Hitt wrote:
Issuing the command "gcc -o f.exe xxx.c", where xxx.c consists of...:
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
printf("Foo!\n");
return;
}
... causes 87 bytes to go out and 36 to come in, so says the Dial-Up
Networking Monitor.
I'm connected to the Internet through a dial-up PPP account, and, no,
the data-transfer doesn't occur if I tell gcc not to link, so I guess
that that's -where- it's happening, so, again, why?;)
This is from the cygwinb20 full.exe distribution at Cygnus' FTP site,
running on WinNT 4.
> I just tried using a simple gcc command and got no change at all in my
> Microsoft "Bytes received:" or "Bytes sent:" counter. I was online at
> the time, through my netcom shell account, running slirp. Perhaps if
> you posted a more detailed account of your experience to the mailing
> list, others and I could more accurately give it a try.
>
> Try for as simple a case as possible. Do you see the problem when
> compiling a simple "hello, world" program, using only "gcc -c"? How
> much does the "Bytes received:" counter advance? The "Bytes sent:"
> counter? Is this amount consistent every time you run the same test
> case of gcc? How are you connected to the internet? By a PPP
> account? from what ISP? etc etc etc etc :-) Of course, the more
> detail and the simpler test case you provide, the more likely others
> will be able to reproduce your experience.
>
> Richard
>
> On Sat, 18 Sep 1999 10:42:54 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >I've noticed that, when connected to the internet, starting GCC causes
> >some data-flow over my connection (or, at least, it looks like it
> >does--I'm using an internal modem, so I'm assuming that MS's monitor
> >is telling me the truth). Why is this?
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