Re: loading of wsock32 disturbs FPU

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 05:21:55PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>And I can confirm that adding 'asm ("finit");' to wsock_init (I put it
>inside the "if (!wsock_started)" clause, just after the closing brace
>of the "if (wsastartup)" clause) fixes both the testcase that Ralf
>posted this morning and also fixes his original example code so that it
>produces the same results whether or not the hostname call is made.
>(It doesn't of course fix the problem if the user calls LoadLibrary
>directly on either ws2_32 or msvcrt, but we don't expect it to, we just
>want the cygwin library calls to not have unexpected side-effects!)

But unconditionally calling "finit" will guarantee unexplained side-effects...

cgf

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