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From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: stable compiler package gcc4-4.5.3-2
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:30:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110908202949.GA32219@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPw2spgdvGCJSBvcigsKhqoUnOinG2UGmN2jVg3qQxRvZ2uxjA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 10:17:57PM +0200, Fr?d?ric Bron wrote:
>> In my experience, these sorts of errors arise when there really is something
>> wrong with the code, usually involving sizes of integers (e.g. 'long' in
>> struct's definition and 'int' in another, on a 64-bit machine). However, the
>> linker is poorly-equipped to detect such errors unless the resulting objects
>> have different sizes.
>>
>> So, while I wouldn't rule out miscompilation, I would first check for
>> silently conflicting definitions in different compilation units.
>
>Does the linker message gives any hint on where to look?
>
>> BTW, a STC would have been extremely helpful here -- all we can do is
>> speculate without it
>
>Could you give more details. I cannot find on the net what you mean by "a STC".

http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#STC

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-08 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-02  4:02 Dave Korn
2011-09-06 19:45 ` Bernd Prager
2011-09-06 21:28   ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2011-09-08 16:34     ` Bernd Prager
2011-09-09  4:23       ` Dave Korn
2011-09-09 15:38         ` Dave Korn
2011-09-11  7:50           ` Bernd Prager
2011-09-11 16:29             ` Bernd Prager
2011-09-08  5:32 ` Frédéric Bron
2011-09-08 12:19   ` Ryan Johnson
2011-09-08 20:18     ` Frédéric Bron
2011-09-08 20:30       ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2011-09-08 22:44         ` Frédéric Bron
2011-09-08 23:34       ` Ryan Johnson

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