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To: guinan AT bluebutton DOT com
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Subject: Re: Segfault when call kernel32 function 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 10 Jan 2000 18:18:05 EST."
             <Pine DOT LNX DOT 4 DOT 10 DOT 10001101758350 DOT 1054-100000 AT gemini DOT home DOT net> 
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 17:29:31 -0600
From: Mumit Khan <khan AT NanoTech DOT Wisc DOT EDU>

Jamie Guinan <guinan AT bluebutton DOT com> writes:
> 
> I did some searching on microsoft.com, and it looks like MSVC 6 did 
> in fact start putting const stuff in read-only memory,
> 
>   http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q201/3/72.ASP
> 

Thanks. This is good to know -- now I can run some tests.

> But the popular reference for Win32 serial programming where I
> first found BuildCommDCB is from 1995, pre-MSVC 6,
> 
>   http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/techart/msdn_serial.htm

Hmmm ... I should do a quick search. Thanks to Microsoft's Platform
group, I have MSDN CDs.

> I emailed them about this potential source of confusion, but I'm 
> not holding my breath. :)

And of course, it could just be due to a bug somewhere either in the
runtime headers/import-libraries or GCC itself. However, since we can't
look at the sources for Windows API, we'll just have to settle for
blaming the underlying API for whatever problems we run into ;-)

Regards,
Mumit


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