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Re: _impure_ptr uninitialized in DLLs?
- To: cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: _impure_ptr uninitialized in DLLs?
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 14:05:42 -0400
- References: <779F20BCCE5AD31186A50008C75D9979171740@silldn_mail1.sanwaint.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 12:50:29PM +0100, Fifer, Eric wrote:
>Starting with the Jul-01 snapshot, something changed with the handling
>of _impure_ptr so that within a newly compiled DLL its value is NULL.
>Previously compiled DLLs continue to work. Presumably this is related
>to the restructuring of user_data.
>
>I'll try to hunt down the problem, but thought I should report it in
>the meantime.
I see the problem. I don't know how to solve it yet but I'm
working on it.
I'm glad that you found this. If we'd released a version of the Cygwin
DLL with this problem there would have been hell-to-pay.
cgf