From:	noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject:	Re: Massive, yet simple, change
2 Feb 1998 14:04:24 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<199802022108.NAA22993.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@skaro.cygnus.com>
References:	<199801292207 DOT RAA05791 AT hardy DOT bbc DOT com>
Reply-To:	cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com
To:	cgf AT bbc DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Cc:	cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> Taking my cue from a comment in winsup.h, I've removed most of the references
> in u->self from cygwin and replaced them with a global 'myself'.  This
> reduces the code size of my version of cygwin by about 2k.
> 
> As far as I can see, u->self is still needed for fork.  This may not be
> the case if/when Sergey's changes to copy the data section of a forked .dll
> are incorporated into cygwin.
> 
> Do you want the patch?  Or, I can just explain what I did.  It was pretty
> much a sed substitution with the exception of dcrt0.cc, fork.cc, and
> pinfo.cc.

I would like this patch.  Thanks!

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Geoffrey Noer
noer AT cygnus DOT com

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