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Re: Problems on Itanium: Found the Cause, What's Next?
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:20:01 +0200
- Subject: Re: Problems on Itanium: Found the Cause, What's Next?
- References: <200409281232.i8SCWDab029529@www3.pochta.ru>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Sep 28 16:32, Alexei Alexandrov wrote:
> If you compile this code with 32-bit compiler and then run it on 64-bit Server 2003 it will crash. At the same time it
> works on 32-bit machines.
It also works fine on a x86_64 machine in 32 bit mode.
> So the questions is to cygwin developers: what can be done next? I\'ve found file wincap.cc with particular platforms
> capability descriptions. I\'ve tried to set has_working_copy_on_write to false when IsWow64Process return true and it
> seems to work, but how can I be sure that I didn\'t break anything else? Are there any tests or something? And generally
> is this fix OK? Which drawbacks can it have? If the fix is OK - let me know, I will provide a patch.
No, because this would also exclude x86_64 machines.
Actually I'm somewhat in doubt that CreateFileMapping/MapVieOfFile
functionality should actually be so broken on the ia64 platform.
Are you really sure that the culprit isn't somewhere else?
Your test application uses a very common idiom, so I'd guess that
a lot more applications would fail miserably on ia64 in 32 bit mode.
Corinna
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