On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Dave Korn wrote: > ----Original Message---- > >From: Brian Ford > >Sent: 15 September 2005 23:20 > > > I am confused, though. The crash you presented to me was one of not being > > able to start nedit at all: > > > > Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 17:09:32 -0700 > > From: Harold L Hunt > > To: Brian.Ford > > Subject: Re: lesstif update request > > > > Nope, 0.94.4 doesn't work with nedit: > > > > --------------------------- > > nedit.exe - Application Error > > --------------------------- > > The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005). Click on OK > > to terminate the application. > > That was the binutils relocs-in-non-writable-.rodata sections problem, > wasn't it?
Exactly, and I explained that to Harold in this not-yet-quoted private message from the thread in July (heavily snipped to be concise): Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 13:11:30 -0700 From: Harold L Hunt To: Brian Ford Subject: Re: lesstif update request > On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Harold L Hunt wrote: > >>The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005). Click on OK >>to terminate the application. > > Looks like this could be caused by gcc >= 3.3.3 putting const variables > containing addresses of imported DLL symbols into .rdata (which then can't > be magically relocated at run time since they end up in a read only > section) as discussed here: > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg01101.html > > That was a libtool specific example, but I believe the problem is a > general one. Yup, that sounds like it describes the problem... and I remember reading that thread a while back, but I guess I didn't catch the connection. [end quoted message] This is exactly why I suspected it was a problem with his binutils or gcc packages being out-of-date. It is also why I am so confused about him saying I need to play around with nedit to make it crash? -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot...