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Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 22:21:37 -0400
To: "Kris Warkentin" <kewarken AT qnx DOT com>, "Dan Vasaru" <dvasaru AT broadpark DOT no>,
   <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: CR/NL problem with cpp.exe
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Maybe Cygwin's version was linked with textmode.o or automode.o and yours
isn't.

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At 04:26 PM 10/1/2002, Kris Warkentin wrote:
>I'm actually quite certain that what you wrote would help.  The issue is
>that cccp.c (the gcc preprocessor) does not do that and, as near as I can
>tell from the FAQ, shouldn't need to.  That, however, is where I might be
>wrong.  I'm wondering if the cpp shipped with Cygwin has been patched so
>that it does explicitly open files as text.  If that's the case, then that
>might explain why I'm seeing different behaviour.
>
>Aha!  I just copied dosfile.c to a text mode partition and it works with our
>preprocessor.  That implies that there must be some buggery in the Cygwin
>version of cpp.exe.  I noticed that the version of gcc shipped with cygwin
>is 2.95.3-5.  Is the '-5' some form of Cygwin specific patch with some
>assorted magic in it?  Perhaps someone on this list would know.
>
>cheers,
>
>Kris
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dan Vasaru" <dvasaru AT broadpark DOT no>
>To: "Kris Warkentin" <kewarken AT qnx DOT com>
>Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 4:18 PM
>Subject: RE: CR/NL problem with cpp.exe
>
>
> > Sorry about that, I set out to write a longer reply (which I posted to the
> > group) and typed CTRL+ENTER just as I got started.
> >
> > If what I wrote to the group doesn't help, (opening your files with
>O_TEXT,
> > and setting stdin to textmode), then I believe you have a problem.
> > 1. What type are your mounts (where your c files reside)
> > 2. What is the value of the CYGWIN variable ?
> >
> > Dan
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kris Warkentin [mailto:kewarken AT qnx DOT com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 10:04 PM
> > To: Dan Vasaru
> > Subject: Re: CR/NL problem with cpp.exe
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dan Vasaru" <dvasaru AT broadpark DOT no>
> > To: "Kris Warkentin" <kewarken AT qnx DOT com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 3:48 PM
> > Subject: RE: CR/NL problem with cpp.exe
> >
> >
> > > Kris,
> > >
> > > Please refer to this section of the FAQ:
> > >
> >
> > Which section?  I've read the CR/NL sections of the FAQ and I believe I
> > understand the issue at hand.
> >
> > 1) Two versions of cpp.exe, both compiled under cygwin, both running under
> > same environment with the same input from the same filesystem.
> > 2) The code for cpp.exe doesn't do anything special but rather just checks
> > for '\\' '\n' at the end of a line.
> > 3) The cpp.exe shipped with Cygwin works fine - input translation takes
> > place just as the FAQ states - the open() call opens them in O_TEXT mode.
> > 4) The cpp.exe that we built does not get the benefit of this input
> > translation.
> >
> > As near as I can tell, our cpp.exe should 'just work' and yet it doesn't.
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > Kris
> >
> >
>
>
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