[gvd-users] GVD for Win98

[Arnaud Charlet]

> I had trouble with GCC, built as an MCU cross compiler, seg faulting on 
> Win98 with Cygwin, and recently found the cause. There is a bug in 
> Cygwin when using mmap. On Win NT, 2000 and XP it seems to always work 
> OK. On Win98 it sometimes allocates the same address more than once. I 
> put a simple check in GCC for repeat allocation of the same block, and 
> made it grab memory again until it gets a different block. Now my GCC 
> build works OK on Win98. I wonder if a similar problem lies behind the 
> trouble with GVD.

GVD is built with mingwin, so I doubt this is the issue, but this is an
interesting possibility.

> AFAIK, the trouble is a dll that does not exist under Win9X.

This is incorrect.

Arno