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Re: /proc/uptime etc. - NtQuerySystemInformation() needs bigger structure
> >> --- winsup/cygwin/ntdll.h.old 2002-05-30 21:21:04.000000000 +0100
> >> +++ winsup/cygwin/ntdll.h 2002-07-05 11:15:52.000000000 +0100
> >> @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ typedef struct _SYSTEM_PROCESSOR_TIMES
> >> LARGE_INTEGER DpcTime;
> >> LARGE_INTEGER InterruptTime;
> >> ULONG InterruptCount;
> >> + ULONG Unused;
> >> } SYSTEM_PROCESSOR_TIMES, *PSYSTEM_PROCESSOR_TIMES;
> >>
> >> typedef LONG KPRIORITY;
> >
> >I will look at this patch tonight, but I would be grateful if you could
> >answer the following questions:
> >What version of binutils are you using?
> >If you compiled Cygwin using just the 1.3.12 sources with no
modifications,
> >does /proc/uptime have any content?
>
> I think this is a symptom of the fact that gcc uses different alignment
> than msvc. If you add a __attribute__ ((aligned (8))) to the structure
> it should "fix" the problem.
>
> This is one thing that was fixed by the -fnative-struct gcc option which
> is, unfortunately, not available in gcc 3.1.
I remember getting /proc working with aligned (4). Either I remember
incorrectly or something strange is going on. Either way it would probably
do no harm to explicitly set the alignment of the structures in ntdll.h
Chris
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