"Bad Address" error from random executables causing freezes after "upgrading" to Win7

ownloaded and un-tar'd http://cygwin.org/snapshots/cygwin-inst-20110213.tar.bz2 Then I rebooted. No luck. The problem persists. This is what "uname -a" now says: CYGWIN_NT-6.1 pisa 1.7.8s(0.236/5/3) 20110213 16:43:51 i686 Cygwin Has anybody else encountered this

Re: [wayne@cs.toronto.edu: Cygwin-1.5.5 sscanf on floats: 20 times slower than 2 years ago]

>Since scanf and the floating point arithmetic is implemented in newlib, >I've redirected this message there. Does anybody have an idea, what >could slow down float scanning in sscanf by a factor of 20? Thanks! Just to be pedentic, I realized that it's worse than a factor of 20. My *entire simul

Cygwin-1.5.5 sscanf on floats: 20 times slower than 2 years ago

Hello. Until recently I was running W2k with an ancient version of cygwin; I don't know what version it was, but if anybody cares I've put a copy of cygwin1.dll (dated 2001-May-20) at http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~wayne/tmp/cygwin1-old.dll.gz It worked fine on W2k for the past 2.5 years. I