----Original Message----
>From: Ralf B. Schulz
>Sent: 02 March 2005 12:07
> This is a follow-up on thread "1.5.12: FPU affected by gethostname call".
> It shows that calling some functions of the windows API will affect the
> floating point unit so that all calculation are performed with double
> precision only, instead of long double precision.
>
> After careful examination, the problem is as follows: after loading of
> some DLLs (in particular wsock32.dll) it seems that some flags of the
> floating point unit that determine the accuracy of floating point
> calculations are changed.
> So I conclude:
> a) when loading the DLL, i.e. with the first call of any function in
> wsock32, the FPU goes into 64 bit mode
Confirmed. In fact, it's ws2_32.dll; wsock32 forwards pretty much
everything it does to ws2 these days. You can replace the gethostname call
with just LoadLibrary ("ws2_32.dll"); and it still fails.
Hey everyone, you know that standard advice about never linking
MSVCRT-based stuff together with cygwin-based stuff?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /win/c/WINDOWS/system32> cygcheck ws2_32.dll
Found: .\ws2_32.dll
ws2_32.dll
.\msvcrt.dll
.\KERNEL32.dll
.\ntdll.dll
.\WS2HELP.dll
.\ADVAPI32.dll
.\RPCRT4.dll
Houston, we have a problem! Replacing the gethostname() call with
LoadLibrary ("msvcrt.dll"); also reproduces the problem.
> b) the assembler instruction "finit" rsets it to 80-bit mode
> c) after that, any other calls to the DLL, which now resides in memory,
> is not disturbing the FPU, that means whatever it is that happens to the
> FPU, it happens in the DLL startup code or in the DLL loader.
This must be down to a difference between Cygwin's newlib-based CRTinit
code and something linked into wsock32 that is MSVCrt-init based. It's got
to be in the DllMain rather than the loader or we'd see it with other
libraries.
Hm. We probably need to put a finit instruction into the autoload code
somewhere. wsock_init () looks like just the place...... now if I just
persuade the CVS code to build without a SIG11 (grmbl grmbl....)
cheers,
DaveK
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