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On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 09:10:52PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
>2009/7/24 Christopher Faylor:
>> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 07:54:50PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
>>>But segv handling is mandatory for decent performance and only
>>>stack overflow handling corrupts the cygwin stack.
>>
>> I can't grok that sentence. ?Are you reporting a bug?
>
>Sorry, I understood that wrong.  I thought Eric reported the bug that
>installing the libsigsegv *stack overflow* handler corrupted the cygwin
>SEH chain with Win2008.  Not the *segv* handler.
>
>But then I learned that indeed a Win2008 exception causes another SEGV
>to be delayed
>(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2009-07/msg00092.html)
>and this fools the segv handler, not the stack handler.

Thanks for the clarification.

cgf

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