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Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 12:37:47 +0200
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit AT familiehaase DOT de>
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To: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov AT gmx DOT net>
CC: "James R. Phillips" <antiskid56-cygwin AT yahoo DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: ATTN: g++ maintainer: Using string instances to pass arguments   to dlls
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Pavel Tsekov wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, James R. Phillips wrote:
> 
> 
>>Does fixing this bug require upstream intervention, or can you just develop a
>>patch, and submit it to upstream?
> 
> 
> If it is only the std::string implementation that uses the described
> optimization the problem can be worked around by just rebuilding libstdc++
> with _GLIBCXX_FULLY_DYNAMIC_STRING defined. If other classes provided by
> libstdc++ use similiar techniques the best solution would be to get
> libstdc++ built as shared library which according to Charles Wilson is
> unfortunately a "hard problem" :(
> 
> I'll try to rebuild libstdc++ now with _GLIBCXX_FULLY_DYNAMIC_STRING
> defined and will report back if there is interest. I would like to help
> to get this issue resolved.

Yes, much appreciated.  Please CC me when you report back!

Gerrit
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