[Mingw-w64-public] alloca()-Problems, a smoking gun no resolution yet.

2009-03-15 Thread Wolfgang Glas
Hi all, I've been trying very hard to reduce my alloca() problems and at got stuck with every attempt to isolate the problem. Finally I linked a mildly complex C-program, which crashed before using a handcrafted Makefile and luckily I found out, that the program crashes, when I add a bunch

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] alloca()-Problems, a smoking gun no resolution yet.

2009-03-15 Thread Kai Tietz
2009/3/15 Wolfgang Glas wolfgang.g...@ev-i.at: Hi all,  I've been trying very hard to reduce my alloca() problems and at got stuck with every attempt to isolate the problem.  Finally I linked a mildly complex C-program, which crashed before using a handcrafted Makefile and luckily I found

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] alloca()-Problems, a smoking gun no resolution yet.

2009-03-15 Thread Kai Tietz
2009/3/15 Shaun Barlow shaun.d.bar...@gmail.com: Hi, Ok, I found the issue. Your application calls __chkstk from kernel32, which is pretty false. Because the MS variant just probes the stack, but does not allocate it as the cygwin variant. There are two possible ways to solve this, a) Remove

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Release policy , relationship to other mingw projects.

2009-03-15 Thread Arthur Norman
 Are there any efforts to arrange for such an integration in the near future? The way that mingw.org packages things is too confusing for my tastes. However, we have not yet begun to port things like msys, or to try compiling msys on/for Win64. I personally feel that the msys environment is