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Reuben Thomas wrote: > > In mingw versions later than 20001111, i.e. 20001225 and 20010130, fstat > seems to overrun the stat buffer passed to it. This is illustrated by the > following program, in which if a simple struct stat is passed to test, foo > crashes when it tries to return (presumably the return address is > overwritten). If a struct bar (with extra padding before and after the > struct stat) is used instead, there is no error. > > >From looking at /usr/include/mingw/stat.h, it seems that there are at least > two different versions of struct stat in play, potentially with different > types, but I don't claim to understand what's going on. > Which gcc version are you using? There are different versions of the stat structure based on whether you are using CRTDLL or MSVCRT. There is a bug in the specs file for gcc-2.95.2-7 in that __MSVCRT__ should be defined when -mno-cygwin is used. The absence of this is what has caused your problem. Earnie P.S.: Thanks for the test case. I'll try it out later. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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