Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 12:51:09 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Building gcc on cygwin w/ Herman Ten Brugge's bounds checking patch Message-ID: <20031110175109.GC13143@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20031108144026 DOT 41321 DOT qmail AT web20807 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> <3FAFCAC6 DOT 5090601 AT hekimian DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FAFCAC6.5090601@hekimian.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 12:28:38PM -0500, Joe Buehler wrote: >Bill Priest wrote: >>I've built gcc w/ the bounds checking patch on Linux and solaris and am >>trying to build it on cygwin (w/ the cygwin modified source from >>setup). With tweak to one file I've been able to get it to bootstrap >>w/o any errors and the resulting C compiler will work w/o specifying >>"-fbounds-checking". But I get a seg fault when specifying >>"-fbounds-checking". Has anyone been able to build gcc w/ this patch?? >>I'm sure the problem is parts of the patch that don't apply cleanly vs. >>the cygwin patches. > >I had downloaded this but not tried it yet. If you get it working it >would be "interesting" to recompile Cygwin and all of its packages and >see what happens. We have most of the core dumps out of our local >Cygwin setup but there are still some happening from time to time... I don't know what this means. Are you saying that you have local modifications to fix segvs in cygwin? If so, why aren't you sending any changes back to cygwin-patches? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/