Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2001/09/09/20:57:19
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 10:31:52AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com]
>>
>> I'm pretty sure that the fork fixup routines are running. If
>> they weren't
>> then fork wouldn't be operational.
>
>sure :]. Its the only-shows-output-when-exec-occurs-from-tcsh that has
>me intrigued.
>
>> You do have to make sure that you call anything which uses
>> malloc at the
>> proper point or some things (like mutos) won't be properly
>> initialized.
>
>does system_printf use malloc? Otherwise what I'm doing is pretty basic.
>(win32 CreateMutex call and a list iteration.).
>
>> I've just reduced the size of the problematic 'zombies'
>> array. I don't know
>> if that is what is causing your size problems but it should
>> make the DLL
>> noticeably smaller.
>
>Thanks. When I get home I'll give feedback.
>
>> If you can't, for some reason, debug a DLL that is entirely
>> built with -g,
>> try compiling everything except fork.cc and thread.c (or
>> whatever) with '-O2'
>> and those to files with '-g'.
>>
>> You are using the latest version of binutils, right?
>
>No, I'm still using the cross-compile toolkit I setup a while back. Do I
>need to update that for correct functionality?
Hmm. No. I don't see why you would.
Actually, I don't see why I even asked the question. :-) It should work
fine with any relatively "modern" binutils.
cgf
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