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Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 13:42:27 +1200
From: Danny Smith <dannysmith AT clear DOT net DOT nz>
Subject: Re: cygwin1.dll [1.3.11(CVS)]: Changes since 06/19 snapshot cause page
 fault in kernel32.dl
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This may be culprit:


On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 06:46:29PM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
>PT>> 3) The new binutils has something to do with the crash
>
>I've found the following:
>
> Old 'ld'(200110) seems to place the following symbols and the first
> '.data_cygwin_nocopy' on a the same  place - '_data_end__' and
> 'wsock_started'.
>
> New 'ld' places them in the following order:
>   1. '_data_end__'
>   2. first '.data_cygwin_nocopy' section and 'wsock_started' starting
>      4 bytes after '_data_end__'.
>
>Of course it may have nothing to do with the crash - if so just tell me
>and I'll shut up :)

That's actually an interesting observation.  Thanks.

I can confirm that the test version of binutils is doing something
funky.  I've removed that version from sourceware



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