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: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 12:40:57 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: loading of wsock32 disturbs FPU Message-ID: <20050302174057.GC21935@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20050302143149 DOT GA3187 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 05:21:55PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote: >And I can confirm that adding 'asm ("finit");' to wsock_init (I put it >inside the "if (!wsock_started)" clause, just after the closing brace >of the "if (wsastartup)" clause) fixes both the testcase that Ralf >posted this morning and also fixes his original example code so that it >produces the same results whether or not the hostname call is made. >(It doesn't of course fix the problem if the user calls LoadLibrary >directly on either ws2_32 or msvcrt, but we don't expect it to, we just >want the cygwin library calls to not have unexpected side-effects!) But unconditionally calling "finit" will guarantee unexplained side-effects... cgf -- 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/