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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 20:12:03 -0400
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Subject: Re: _impure_ptr uninitialized in DLLs?
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Eric Fifer wrote:
>cgf wrote:
>>Well, I couldn't hold out.  I've rewritten dll_init.{c,h}.  I'm sure that
>>I've introduced some new bugs but Eric's problems now seem to be fixed.
>
>Yes, the July-14 snapshot seems to be working much better.
>
>However, I may have one last twist on the problem.  I'm loading
>a Cygwin enabled DLL into a non-Cygwin application (Excel) and
>stdout seems to have disappeared.  I'll try to track this down ...

I modified one of your tests to track this down.  For once, this
problem appeared to predate my tinkering but I fixed it anyway.

The "7/16" snapshot has my change.
cgf