Is the Latest Release of Cygwin supported on Windows Server 8/2012
Tim Prince
n8tm@aol.com
Sun May 27 07:30:00 GMT 2012
On 05/26/2012 07:40 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
>
>
> Every time you fetch a word or instruction that is not 8-byte
> aligned,
> you force a fatal (but caught by the processor and/or OS) signal for
> unaligned
> data. That forces execution out of the pipeline (though not likely
> out of
> cache, sadly, due to frequency of occurrence). That's not counting
> the extra
> cycles to fetch the rest of the data. On some machines that can
> easily amount
> to several dozen instructions worth.
>
There have been compilers for 32-bit Windows for 20 years which gave
8-byte alignments by default. cygwin changed the default configure
parameter in binutils so as to support alignment about 8 years ago. It
was tolerable to some before then as it matters only for 64-bit and
larger objects (doubles, and SSE, after that was introduced). The
characteristics of the worst compiler (with respect to alignment)
available outside of cygwin don't have a bearing on this list.
If the powers that be have decided that 64-bit mode should be supported
on cygwin setup.exe only by mingw cross compilers, I'll accept that.
--
Tim Prince
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