Mail Archives: cygwin/2009/07/23/23:55:22
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 11:25:11AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 05:16:51AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>>So I see several possibilities:
>>[snip]
>
>My point, which I don't think you addressed in your long explanation, is
>that there doesn't seem to be any "alternate stack" stuff going on in
>the Windows code. Therefore, it seems like you could just rely on linux
>signal handling to get the same level of behavior under Cygwin that you
>currently get with the library. The problem is that, although configure
>seems to be ok with a missing sigaltstack function, and some of the code
>tries to work around its lack, there are still lots of places which
>assume that if you're on UNIX you must have this function.
>
>libaltstack is doing something dangerous by assuming that it knows what
libsigsegv
>Cygwin is doing with SEH. I don't think that it should ever be used on
>Cygwin in its current incarnation.
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