Cannot dlsym() some symbols from a DLL built with Cygwin

I am having a strange problem with a DLL built with Cygwin (gcc 3.2 200290927 and ld 2.13.90 20021118). I downloaded a package from the Net and built it as a DLL. Then, I wrote to programs, one which linked implicitly with the DLL, and one which linked explicitly (dlopen()ed the DLL, and then dlsy

"Segmentation fault" error in ld

The version of ld distributed with Cygwin (version 2.13.90 20021118) exits with a "segmentation fault" error when launched with the -shared option and passed a .def file with a syntax error. An example: create a file with a .def extension, and the following content - LIBRARY lib BA

Strange behaviour of gcc

Can somebody explain why gcc (version 3.2 20020927) on Cygwin does this? Type this simple C program void func(void){ struct {unsigned char data[3985];}var; } and compile with gcc -c filename.c Then type nm filename.o The output is b .bss d .data t .text

Re:Strange behaviour of gcc

>-- Messaggio Originale -- >Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 16:11:34 +1100 (EST) >From: Danny Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re:Strange behaviour of gcc >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Is there a reason why the symbol __alloca appears? > > >GCC's __builti

Cannot use zlib with Mingw

I was trying to compile a program which uses zlib with Mingw (i.e. with the flag -mno-cygwin) but the compilation failed because zlib.h could not be found. No problems with standard Cygwin compilation. Probably, if -mno-cygwin is used, only the directory /usr/include/mingw is searched, /usr/includ

Re:Strange behaviour of gcc

From: Randall R Schulz To: cygwin at cygwin dot com Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 08:16:59 -0800 Subject: Re:Strange behaviour of gcc References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Stack space is usually far more limited than heap >space, which I assume is what motivates this behavior >in the code generator. The prog

Re: Strange behaviour of gcc

>-- Messaggio Originale -- >From: "Max Bowsher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of gcc >Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 23:25:00 - > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Can somebody explain why gcc (version 3.2 20020927) on Cygwin doe