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Brian Dessent wrote:

> I just want to remind everyone that using --enable-fully-dynamic-string
> will incur a somewhat significant performance hit, and it's the reason
> this hasn't been set as the default for Cygwin.  In the PR there is a
> patch that is reported to fix the problem without the full performance
> hit, so that would be preferable to use rather than the 20-ton hammer.

The fuzzy semi-conclusion of the bug report scared me off - figured it'd 
be a safer choice to go with 'known to work but slower' that wouldn't 
add a draft patch to the diffs while they finish sorting it out in gcc land.

Either way, I'd just like to see this bug fixed. :)  'slow' or 'draft', 
anything is better than the current: 'crash'.  I'm not sure who the 
current gcc maintainer of Cygwin is - I think Gerrit?  If it's a time 
issue for him, I could build the packages and fix the sh/diff this 
weekend given a call on which path to take - draft patch or 
--enable-fully-dynamic-string.  I just don't want it to fall through the 
cracks again.


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