RE: Exception: STATUS_PRIVILEGED_INSTRUCTION occurs before main is executed.

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Bruce Adams [TEPG Sunbury] wrote:

>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Steven O'Brien [mailto:steven dot obrien2 at ntlworld dot com]
> >Sent: 05 March 2003 11:36
> >To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
> >Subject: Re: Exception: STATUS_PRIVILEGED_INSTRUCTION occurs
> >before main is executed.
> >
> >Bruce Adams wrote:
> >> I have lately been having real problems with vanilla gcc 3.2
> >> generating executables that crash.
> ><snip>
> >> The simplest way to reproduce the problem is to have a main function
> >> in a file with a .h of the same name as below.
> >
> >Bruce I have tried your example code and it works fine for me:
> >Windows 2000 SP2, cygwin-1.3.20-1, gcc-3.2 20020927 (prerelease),
> >binutils-2.13.90 20021118.
> >
> >Maybe the problem is in your cygwin installation?
> >
> >Steven
> >
> Thanks for trying it.
>
> Noramlly before I waste bandwidth here I do a clean install of the latest
> cygwin packages.  I did one a short while ago and it didn't solve the
> problem.
> Also I tried this on two machines with independent installs.
> However, I did one last night on the off chance that something might have
> been
> updated that fixes it.  Lo and behold my compiler works.  My apologies for
> wasting bandwidth.  As a bonus this also fixes my problem with gcj being
> unable to make standalone executables that work.
> Its probably not worth wasting further bandwidth to go into a root cause
> analysis but I'm sure that the previous installation included a corrupt gcc.
> I'm still curious what could have gone wrong with the installation, in
> case it happens again.  I notice that in the intervening time we have
> moved from
>
> gcc version 3.2 20020818 (prerelease)
>
> to
>
> gcc version 3.2 20020927 (prerelease)
>
> and the gcc package has moved from
>
> binutils            20021107-1
> gcc                 3.2-1
> gcc-mingw           3.2-20020817-1
>
> To
>
> binutils             20021117-1
> gcc                  3.2-3
> gcc-mingw            20020817-5
>
> I guess I missed the announce somewhere.
> We're still using a "prerelease" whatever that means.
>
> My feeling is that 3.2-1 must have been corrupt rather than my
> installations.
> I think it would be a great idea if the post setup phase did some
> basic configure style checking (assuming it doesn't already).
> i.e.
>    Checking if the compiler gcc works.... No
>
> It would have saved me a couple of months of heartache.
> I seems very strange that nobody else spotted it though.
> How exactly could an installation become so corrupt that nothing short of
> a complete download (from a different mirror site) fixes it without the
> underlying package being in error?
>
> Regards,
>           Bruce A.

Bruce,

I'm reasonably sure that if you create such a post-install script, it will
be at least thoughfully considered by the gcc maintainer...  Especially if
we could get postinstall scripts to run in some more appropriate order...
	Igor
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