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Re: Large-Address awareness on 64 bit systems


On Jun 27 21:52, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 10:09 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Jun 19 02:24, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> > > But I think I do. :-)  I have rebased and reflagged my system
> > > accordingly, and so far (running GNOME 3 desktop) so good.  I'll keep
> > > you posted.
> > 
> > Great, thanks!  As I just wrote in my reply to Ryan, I even rebased the
> > Cygwin DLL(*) and it runs fine for me.
> 
> I still have been getting the occasional "fork: Resource temporarily
> unavailable" error with make, but I haven't seen the "unable to remap
> dll" error.  I have also been getting SIGABRT from throwing exceptions
> across C++ DLLs, with GDB pointing to RtlUpdateClonedSRWLock() in ntdll,
> but I was seeing that sometimes before this as well.  (This is with
> 1.7.9; recent snapshots haven't been working for me but I haven't had
> the time to track down why.)

Oh, please try to track it down.  I'm running the latest from CVS on
W7 32 bit and 2008 R2 64 bit daily, and I don't have problems.  If the 
new stuff to avoid collisions works as designed, the chance to see the
fork problem should be much reduced.

Having said that, even without rebasing to large addresses I had a
strange problem a few days ago.  For some reason perl was suddenly
broken.  Trying to start perl generated a stackdump from within the
constructor loop in per_module::run_ctors in dll_init.cc.  Rebasing
didn't help.  Reinstalling helped.  What could that be?  I'm pretty
sure it has something to do with rebasing.

> I'd say that it's not a panacea, but a significant improvement; it
> certainly hasn't hurt, and with all the DLLs in Ports, we can use all
> the address space we can get.

Good to know.  Thanks for testing!


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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