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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:27:07 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: testers needed prior to 1.5.19 release
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On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 01:19:37AM +0200, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
>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).

You're misinterpreting something here.  Cygwin never just silently
truncated arguments to 32K.

>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 ???

I tried this with mingw and Microsoft's compiler without any problem.  If
this program isn't too big (and I don't see why it should be) please post
it here so that I can try it.

cgf

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