[ANNOUNCEMENT] CANCELED [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-53

Dave Korn dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com
Thu Jul 30 20:51:00 GMT 2009


Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> I just fixed the bug.  My stopgap fix for the excessive cygheap usage
> needed a declaration of cstrdup in path.h for the usage in inline
> methods without having to rearrange the header files(*).  Unfortunately
> I screwed this up by omitting the __attribute__ (regparm(1)).  For some
> reason this only had an effect in optimized code.

  I would imagine we got lucky in one build, and the register used to push the
argument to cstrdup onto the stack just happened to be %eax.

> I'm just building a -54 for uploading.  This is the last action before
> my vacation, though.  Talk to you again next Thursday.

  Have a nice break :)

    cheers,
      DaveK



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