[PATCHes] Misc aliasing fixes for building DLL with gcc-4.5.0

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Mon Aug 10 16:38:00 GMT 2009


On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 05:36:54PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 05:28:16AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>>>My turn to say "ugh"! The wrapper function would translate down to a
>>>single 'jmp' if -fno-omit-frame-pointer was in effect, but as things
>>>stand it's a bit ugly.  So maybe we should let both of these rest for a
>>>while and see how things pan out upstream.
>>
>>Yes, sometimes we do ugly things in Cygwin to avoid slowdowns, even if
>>it is to avoid a simple "jmp".
>
>Sure.  So, let's leave this one out and wait for the bug to get fixed
>in GCC.

Sounds good.  Thanks, as always, for spending so much time dealing with
this stuff.

cgf



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