Corinna, One of your changes post-1.7.9 is causing a SIGFPE in the DLL:
$ cat test.c #include <unistd.h> int main(void) { sleep(1); return 0; } $ gcc -o test test.c $ ./test Floating point exception $ gdb ./test GNU gdb (GDB) 7.2 [snip] (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/src/src/winsup/cygwin/test [New Thread 5684.0xefc] warning: section .gnu_debuglink not found in /cygdrive/c/cygwin17/bin/cygwin1.dbg [New Thread 5684.0xff4] Program received signal SIGFPE, Arithmetic exception. 0x610cd147 in nanosleep (rqtp=0x28cc58, rmtp=0x28cc50) at ../../../../winsup/cygwin/signal.cc:114 114 + resolution - 1) / resolution) * resolution; (gdb) bt #0 0x610cd147 in nanosleep (rqtp=0x28cc58, rmtp=0x28cc50) at ../../../../winsup/cygwin/signal.cc:114 #1 0x610cd3f5 in sleep (seconds=1) at ../../../../winsup/cygwin/signal.cc:159 #2 0x610ca565 in _sigfe () from /cygdrive/c/cygwin17/bin/cygwin1.dll #3 0x00000000 in ?? () (gdb) Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple