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Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 15:34:00 -0400
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On 10/8/2013 3:25 PM, David Boyce wrote:
>> But as a point of practicality, 64-bit Cygwin can help with some cases of
>> DLL address space collisions.  So if you haven't experimented with
>> 64-bit Cygwin in your environment, it may be worth your time.
>
> This sounds very reasonable but I'm curious: is it to date just a
> theory that makes sense or have there been actual reports of 64-bit
> Cygwin solving address-space collisions?

Solving?  Well no.  It won't "solve" address-space collisions.  But the
larger address space means that there's less chance of the O/S picking
the address your DLL wants for another.  No guarentees of course. ;-)

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Larry

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A: Yes.
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