Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 17:42:18 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Snapshot 20040225: make hangs/errors out Message-ID: <20040305224218.GA9347@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4044E025 DOT 2060501 AT scytek DOT de> <20040302204752 DOT GA11909 AT redhat DOT com> <40451E42 DOT 4070806 AT scytek DOT de> <4044B845 DOT 7000003 AT scytek DOT de> <20040303033617 DOT GA5325 AT redhat DOT com> <20040304021428 DOT GA5815 AT redhat DOT com> <20040304155948 DOT GA21030 AT redhat DOT com> <20040305193352 DOT GA4324 AT redhat DOT com> <20040305193801 DOT GA4500 AT redhat DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040305193801.GA4500@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 02:38:01PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 02:33:52PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>I think I may have figured this out. >> >>It wasn't the eax register being zeroed. It was actually the test for >>zero returning improper values due to being interrupted by a signal. >> >>I made a fix last night that allowed me to run this for 2500+ >>iterations. Of course, I have managed to do that before without error, >>so that doesn't mean much, I guess. Backing the change out resulted in >>a 'virtual memory exhausted' error in less than a hundred iterations, >>however. Odd that I can duplicate it so readily now. I think my >>computer was previously trying to shield me from the pain of debugging >>this problem. >> >>There is a new snapshot up now with my fix in it. Please try it. > >Sigh. Literally two minutes after sending this email, the "make -j" >test that I was running at home errored out with a different error. > >Back to the drawing board... Hmm. I can't duplicate the failure I saw so maybe it would still be instructive to see how the current snapshot works for others. Please send test results here. 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/