On 1 July 2011 07:44, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 1 11:21, Andy Koppe wrote: >> On 1 July 2011 10:43, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> > On Jul 1 10:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> > And it also does not happen if I build Cygwin with gcc 4.5.1 rather than >> > with gcc 4.3.4. Is it possible that a compiler bug is playing a role >> > here? I can't quite believe it, the effect is too specific. >> >> This sounds similar to some unexplained mintty crashes that Chris >> Sutcliffe and I have seen with gcc 4.3.4, triggered by setup.exe >> running postinstall scripts or vim accessing /etc/fstab. Unfortunately >> we never managed to pin down the actual cause, inspite of a fair bit >> of debugging and staring at the compiler's assembly output. The >> crashes went away with changes that should have made no difference. >> >> See here: >> http://code.google.com/p/mintty/source/detail?r=928 >> http://code.google.com/p/mintty/source/detail?r=894 >> http://groups.google.com/group/mintty-discuss/browse_thread/thread/7f1afcb74c61fe99 > > Hmm, that's really strange...
I know Yaakov has asked a few times now, it would really be nice to have a 4.5.x release of the native Cygwin compiler. I'm curious if the issues I'm having with the latest rtorrent / libtorrent release are a result of a compiler bug. Dave, any chance on a new release? Thank you, Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://emergedesktop.org http://www.google.com/profiles/ir0nh34d -- 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
