Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/03/05/14:38:18
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 02:33:52PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>I think I may have figured this out.
>
>It wasn't the eax register being zeroed. It was actually the test for
>zero returning improper values due to being interrupted by a signal.
>
>I made a fix last night that allowed me to run this for 2500+
>iterations. Of course, I have managed to do that before without error,
>so that doesn't mean much, I guess. Backing the change out resulted in
>a 'virtual memory exhausted' error in less than a hundred iterations,
>however. Odd that I can duplicate it so readily now. I think my
>computer was previously trying to shield me from the pain of debugging
>this problem.
>
>There is a new snapshot up now with my fix in it. Please try it.
Sigh. Literally two minutes after sending this email, the "make -j"
test that I was running at home errored out with a different error.
Back to the drawing board...
cgf
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