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On Mar  4 13:21, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> 
> > Since you're running GDB anyway, what does `bt' print when the SEGV
> > occured?
> 
>    #0  0x003d0000 in ?? ()
>    #1  0x610fcf7c in pthread::init_mainthread ()
>        at
>    /netrel/src/cygwin-snapshot-20130301-1/winsup/cygwin/thread.cc:336

This piece of code hasn't changed since 2011.  The jump to 0x003d0000
looks pretty bad, and it's very lielly not a problem in the Cygwin DLL,
given that this code is called for every single non-forked process.


Corinna

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