Clang is using the wrong memory model

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Aug 16 11:27, Agner Fog wrote:
> Thanks for your replies.
> 
> A Cygwin application with -mcmodel=small appears to work fine.
> 
> As I explained, -mcmodel=small does something else when the target is
> Windows. It does not require addresses to be below 2GB, it only requires the
> distance between a code section and it's data section to be below 2GB.

And that's the point.  The distances are not guranteed to be within
2 GB.  Think errno accessed from another DLL.  Your application works
only by chance.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
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