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Re: libgcc exception handling not thread safe



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From: "Andreas Damm" <andreas-sourceforge@radab.org>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 8:47 PM
Subject: libgcc exception handling not thread safe


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> libgcc.a in the gcc package does not seem to be thread safe with
regards
> to c++ exception handling. Doing a nm libgcc.a does not show any
> dependencies on Windows synchronisation and thread functions (e.g.
> InterlockedIncrement and TlsAlloc).
>
> When compiling a c++ program with -mno-cygwin which runs multiple
threads
> it will eventually crash.
>
> Should this be fixed?

No. Libgcc.a is a cygwin application, and is not meant to be linked in
with -mno-cygwin compiles. A mingw libgcc.a is needed for that scenario.

Rob


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