Some of my coworkers ran into mysterious problems when working
with the latest snapshots of the Cygwin DLL, and I discovered that
CYGTLS_PADSIZE recently grew beyond the expectations of the cygload
test utility. This should fix it:
2006-05-24 Max Kaehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* winsup.api/cygload.h: Increase padding size to
16384 bytes.
Index: cygload.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/winsup/testsuite/winsup.api/cygload.h,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -p -r1.1 cygload.h
--- cygload.h 2 Jan 2006 06:15:58 -0000 1.1
+++ cygload.h 24 May 2006 19:46:21 -0000
@@ -63,10 +63,11 @@ namespace cygwin
std::vector< char > _backup;
char *_stackbase, *_end;
- // gdb reports sizeof(_cygtls) == 3964 at the time of this writing.
+ // gdb reports sizeof(_cygtls) == 4212 at the time of this writing,
+ // and CYGTLS_PADSIZE = 3 * sizeof(_cygtls).
// This is at the end of the object so it'll be toward the bottom
// of the stack when it gets declared.
- char _padding[8192];
+ char _padding[16384];
static padding *_main;
static DWORD _mainTID;
