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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 01:19:37 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Angelo Graziosi <Angelo DOT Graziosi AT roma1 DOT infn DOT it>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: testers needed prior to 1.5.19 release
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With the September snapshots, the following code:

------------------------------------------------
// hello_tst.cpp

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
	cout << "Hello, world!" << endl;
	
	return 0;
}

-------------------------------------------------

works when it is built with g++ 3.4.4-1:

$ g++ hello_tst.cpp
$ ./a
Hello, world!


but if it is built with another compiler, Borlandc 5.5, it does not work:


$ bcc32 hello_tst.cpp
Borland C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 Copyright (c) 1993, 2000 Borland
hello_tst.cpp:
Turbo Incremental Link 5.00 Copyright (c) 1997, 2000 Borland

$ ./hello_tst.exe
bash: ./hello_tst.exe: Argument list too long



The test code works in any case (g++, bcc5.5) with Cygwin 1.5.18-1 and
with the snapshots before that which truncated the command line arguments
to 32k (these snaps now are not more present in the list of snaps, only
those >= 20050906 are present).

This mean that with current snapshots or with the next release of Cygwin
one cannot run from Cygwin applications that were built with other
NON-Cygwin compilers ???


Best regards,

    angelo.


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