On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 12:27:52PM -0800, Shankar Unni wrote: >Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >>Arend-Jan Westhoff writes: >>>I cannot confirm your assertion that msvcrt.dll and cygwin1.dll cannot >>>be used together. > >>The Gary Exclusion Principle: Two C runtimes cannot occupy the same >>point in space at the same moment in time. > >The problem here is that unfortunately they *can* occupy the same point >in space at the same time, with the same bad effects as in science >fiction movies when one object materializes in the middle of another >:-). > >The problem is that, for instance, some of your malloc calls will link >to the cygwin libc, while others (from within the Windows DLLs) will >link to MSVCRT, and if you free the pointer with the "other" library, >terrible things will happen.
Details, details. The bottom line comes down to sheer will. If someone really wants _kbhit then, with enough reinstalls, and email messages stating that fact, it will surely happen regardless of runtimes or exclusionary principles. Human spirit and indomitable determination trumps all! cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
