Re: [RFC] libgfortran dll i/o redirection lossage caused by order-of-termination issue

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

Hi Dave,

On Jul 10 15:11, Dave Korn wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:43:44AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> >> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>>> That's bad.  The call to newlib's __cleanup() hook shuts down stdio
> >>>> facilities, and so when libgfortran DLL's dtors are finally called,
> >>>> they attempt to flush the buffer down already-closed stdio channels,
> >>>> and it gets silently dropped on the floor.
> >>> Yep.  Longstanding issue.  I thought you couldn't guarantee that a
> >>> global destructor would be able to do I/O.
> >> Do you have a reference?  I couldn't see anything in gABI, n2800 or
> >> cxx-abi that really obviously looked like it said that to me.
> > 
> > I couldn't find one either.  I can't remember if this is something I
> > read or something I just felt we had to live with.  I think it's
> > probably the latter.
> 
>   Hopefully we'll turn out not to, after all.
> 
> > My only request is that *this time* we add volumnious documentation with
> > references.  Oh how I wish I could time travel back and knock myself
> > over the head with this simple requirement.
> 
>   I'll add a new how- document while I'm at it.

your mail to cygwin-talk looks like you made some progress in terms of
this problem, is that right?  Are you going to propose a patch soon?


Corinna

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