From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: DLL init patch for loading cygwin DLL from MSVC app
28 Oct 1998 19:14:23 -0800
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To: Mumit Khan <khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu>
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On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 07:45:50PM -0600, Mumit Khan wrote:
>On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> This looks like way too much code duplication for me to be comfortable with
>> it.  Every time we make a change to something in dcrt0.cc we'd have to
>> remember to change it here, too.  I'm also changing some of this for
>> some work in making cygwin thread safe.
>
>I agree. I mostly wanted others' comment whether this type of
>initialization was the right thing to do or not.
>
>> 
>> What was the reason why you couldn't just call dll_crt0, again?
>> 
>
>It was crashing somewhere deep within, but I'm running another build now 
>to check. If it works, that'll of course be the preferred method.

Did you ever manage to get an strace log on this?  It sounds like that
would pinpoint the problem pretty quickly.

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