Re: Threads

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Oct 28 10:43, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 24/10/2014 14:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >I discussed this with my college Kai Tietz (many thanks to him from
> >here), and we came up with a problem in sigdelayed in the 64 bit case:
> >pushf is called *after* aligning the stack with andq.  This alignment
> >potentially changes the CPU flag values so the restored flags are
> >potentially not the flags when entering sigdelayed.
> >
> >I just applied a patch and created new snapshots on
> >https://cygwin.com/snapshots/
> >
> >I couldn't reproduce the problem locally, so I'd be grateful if you
> >could test if that fixes the problem in your testcase, Jon.
> 
> I've tried that snapshot with both my testcase and emacs, without problems.
> 
> Thanks very much for fixing this!

Thanks again to Kai Tietz for helping me with this.

Let's just hope this was the actual problem... :}


Corinna

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