Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/06/29/17:16:06
Hi,
Well, this is curious. There's a c++.exe in my bin, and I take it that it's
present in that of all Cygwin installs that include the C++ compiler, right?
Here's the output of sum on /bin/c++.exe in my Cygwin install (the latest
release versions of everything currently present on mirrors.rcn.net):
% sum /bin/c++.exe
02568 71
% c++ --version
2.95.3-5
What's interesting is that '+' and ',' are adjacent ASCII codes (0x53 vs.
0x54 -- '+' vs. ','). So there's a three-bit difference between "c++.exe"
and "c+,.exe"
How could that have happened without triggering an ECC detection or
correction? It couldn't happen over the net and it couldn't happen on a
hard drive. I assume it could not happen in GZIP or BZIP2 compression.
Non-parity RAM would seem the only possibility.
Curious, no?
Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA
At 13:09 2001-06-29, Matt Gregory wrote:
>The other day I found this file in the bin directory of my
>cygwin installation. I would never have noticed it if it
>didn't mysteriously appear in the Run registry key. Does
>anyone know what this c+,.exe file is, or should I be
>worried about it?
>
>Thanks
>Matt
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