On Sep  6 19:59, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> On Sep  6 13:38, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
> > On 9/6/2021 1:12 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
> > > On 9/6/2021 11:32 AM, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> > > > On Sep  5 09:24, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
> > > > > On 9/4/2021 8:04 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
> > > > > > On 9/4/2021 6:58 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
> > > > > > > Here are the correct commits:
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > 8169e39ab Cygwin: C++17: register keyword is deprecated
> > > > > > > 3ca80b360 Cygwin: dumper: fix up GCC pragma for g++ 11.2
> > > > > > > bdb7991db Cygwin: workaround a g++ 11.2 initialization bug
> > > > > > > 801120c1f Cygwin: loader script: add DWARF 5 sections
> > > > > > > d5cc66426 Cygwin: testsuite: avoid "conflicting types" gcc warning
> > > > > > > c2fe205b5 strstr: avoid warnings
> > > > > > > 76c2c7a89 ldexp/ldexpf: avoid assembler warning
> > > > > > > eeeb5650c Cygwin: fix declaration of RtlInitEmptyUnicodeString
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > So there appears to be something wrong with cygwin1.dll
> > > > > > > > > built with the current build tools (gcc 11.2.0, binutils
> > > > > > > > > 2.37, not sure what else is relevant).
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Wait a minute...I'll bet this is related to the 
> > > > > > MEM_EXTENDED_PARAMETER
> > > > > > initialization problem that was dealt with in commit bdb7991db.
> > > > > 
> > > > > More data: When I run the test case under gdb, it succeeds.  When I 
> > > > > run it
> > > > > under strace, I see VirtualAlloc2 in fhandler_dev_zero::mmap failing 
> > > > > with
> > > > > windows error 87.
> > > > 
> > > > Are the const's I added to the MEM_EXTENDED_PARAMETER data invalid,
> > > > perhaps?
> > > 
> > > I tried removing them, and I got the same error.  I also tried removing
> > > static, and I tried removing both static and const.
> > 
> > BTW, when I reported that the test case succeeds under gdb, that only
> > happens when I build the test case without optimization.  If I build with
> > -O2, it fails under gdb also.  [In all my tests, I built cygwin1.dll without
> > optimization.] This makes no sense to me at all.
> 
> Good hint.  I found the culprit.  With optimization, the code doesn't
> set the "Reserved" bits in the first struct of MEM_EXTENDED_PARAMETER
> to 0.

No, wait.  I get what you say.  The optimzation settings of the test
case should have no influence on the code inside the DLL.  That doesn't
make sense for sure.  However, I ran the testcase under GDB, I could
reproduce the issue, and I could fix it by setting mmap_ext.Reserved = 0;
Go figure!


Corinna

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