loading of wsock32 disturbs FPU

Dave Korn dave.korn@artimi.com
Wed Mar 2 18:42:00 GMT 2005


----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... 
> 
> cgf


 I refer you to my previous post!   :)


    cheers,
      DaveK
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