SUMMARY: Known issues with gnuwin32 development tools of year 1999

[Mumit Khan]

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Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> writes:

> Just to add a little bit more info, Mumit submitted a patch which
> probably will fix the problem but the patch uses malloc for temporary
> storage.  I've recently been bitten by the use of malloc in
> initialization code so I've been futilely trying to think of some way
> around this.  It's probable that Mumit's use of malloc won't really
> cause a problem but I'd like to avoid it if I can, so I've been letting
> this simmer in my unconscious mind for a while to see if it comes up
> with something interesting.

Before I forget, I do have a patch that uses malloc for dynamic loading,
but keeps event-based synchronization for the "normal", ie., link-time 
loading. Is that acceptable? If so, I'll dig it out ... 

With this, you can let it simmer while allowing both static and dynamic 
loading to work ;-)

Regards,
Mumit


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