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Re: loading of wsock32 disturbs FPU
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 06:42:13PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>----Original Message----
>>From: Christopher Faylor
>>Sent: 02 March 2005 17:41
>
>> 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...
>
> I refer you to my previous post! :)
Ditto.
cgf
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