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Subject: why the strange stack stuf in cygwin?
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 08:33:16 +0000
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 Why does Cygwin do such wierd stuff with the top of the stack?
 Is this to have thread locals faster than TlsGetValue offers?
 Is it worth it?
 (The cost: harder to LoadLibrary(cygwin1.dll), harder to port to other architectures,
  the strange path where DllMain "respawns", etc.)
 

 - Jay

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