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Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 15:36:18 -0400
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Subject: Re: Vim segv'ing
From: Chris Sutcliffe <ir0nh34d AT gmail DOT com>
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On 1 July 2011 07:44, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul  1 11:21, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> On 1 July 2011 10:43, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> > On Jul  1 10:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> > And it also does not happen if I build Cygwin with gcc 4.5.1 rather than
>> > with gcc 4.3.4.  Is it possible that a compiler bug is playing a role
>> > here?  I can't quite believe it, the effect is too specific.
>>
>> This sounds similar to some unexplained mintty crashes that Chris
>> Sutcliffe and I have seen with gcc 4.3.4, triggered by setup.exe
>> running postinstall scripts or vim accessing /etc/fstab. Unfortunately
>> we never managed to pin down the actual cause, inspite of a fair bit
>> of debugging and staring at the compiler's assembly output. The
>> crashes went away with changes that should have made no difference.
>>
>> See here:
>> http://code.google.com/p/mintty/source/detail?r=928
>> http://code.google.com/p/mintty/source/detail?r=894
>> http://groups.google.com/group/mintty-discuss/browse_thread/thread/7f1afcb74c61fe99
>
> Hmm, that's really strange...

I know Yaakov has asked a few times now, it would really be nice to
have a 4.5.x release of the native Cygwin compiler.  I'm curious if
the issues I'm having with the latest rtorrent / libtorrent release
are a result of a compiler bug.

Dave, any chance on a new release?

Thank you,

Chris

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