Re: Is the Latest Release of Cygwin supported on Windows Server 8/2012

2012-05-26 Thread Tim Prince
On 05/26/2012 07:40 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: Every time you fetch a word or instruction that is not 8-byte aligned, you force a fatal (but caught by the processor and/or OS) signal for unaligned data. That forces execution out of the pipeline (though not likely out of cache, sadly, due to

Re: Is the Latest Release of Cygwin supported on Windows Server 8/2012

2012-05-26 Thread Daniel Colascione
On 5/26/12 4:40 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: > > Compiling for 64-bit is about memory alignment and native instruction > set/word size execution. The alignment will likely cause runtime > memory usage > to grow somewhat, but it shouldn't be significant in most case So the x32 ABI [1] should be bet

Re: Is the Latest Release of Cygwin supported on Windows Server 8/2012

2012-05-26 Thread Linda Walsh
Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: "Andrew DeFaria" wrote in message news:... On 5/21/2012 1:48 PM, Warren Young wrote: On 5/21/2012 11:34 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Consider a 32-bit executable that is 4 GB in size. Do you know of one 32-bit executable that is 4 GB in size? Just one? OK, how ab

Re: gdb loses keystrokes if dbus is running with --exit-with-session option

2012-05-26 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/26/2012 5:10 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 10:52:55AM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: In a mintty or xterm window, start dbus as follows: $ eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session` Now start gdb and type arbitrary commands (such as "help break"). Many keystrokes

Re: Has anyone collected a summary of cygwin vs Windows 7 64 bit outstanding issues?

2012-05-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 09:12:59PM +0200, marco atzeri wrote: >On 5/23/2012 8:47 PM, Bill Ross wrote: >>> what does "rebase" mean? >> >> >> http://cygwin.random.offsite.place.com/ >> > >/usr/share/doc/rebase/README Thanks Marco. PLEASE don't point to off-site unofficial documentation when we

Re: 64-bit Cygwin packages (was RE: Is the Latest Release of Cygwin supported on Windows Server 8/2012)

2012-05-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 01:15:24PM -0700, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: >> From: Cygwin-L: On Behalf >> Of marco atzeri >> >> Until we work and deploy a 64bit cygwin1.dll the idea to build any 64 bit >> cygwin program is pure academic and not very useful. >> >> If you want to propose patches for 6

Re: gdb loses keystrokes if dbus is running with --exit-with-session option

2012-05-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 10:52:55AM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: >In a mintty or xterm window, start dbus as follows: > >$ eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session` > >Now start gdb and type arbitrary commands (such as "help break"). Many >keystrokes are not received by gdb and have to be type