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Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:03:29 -0700
From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna AT efn DOT org>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Cygwin.dll crash, alloca and custom stack
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On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 09:31:12PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> Is there going to be any part of this interpreter that isn't a "no-no"?
> You're going to longjmp() around all your crazy malloc'd stacks?  Seriously
> Chris, how is it that you can come up with all these wild... Schemes... and
> yet you can't just admit you've taken a wrong turn at Albequerque and do
> things in a sane way?

No, it's perl that longjmps around crazy malloc'd stacks.  But at least
it doesn't set registers to them, and is slow as molasses because of it.

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