Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Position independent code (-fPIC) on x86_64 Windows dll specially for Cygwin

2012-08-08 Thread dashesy
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote: > On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:33 PM, dashesy wrote: >> BTW, this is the line in Wikipedia "64-bit Windows has switched to >> using position-independent code for DLLs as well and has abandoned >> relocation" >

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Position independent code (-fPIC) on x86_64 Windows dll specially for Cygwin

2012-08-08 Thread dashesy
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Kai Tietz wrote: > 2012/8/8 dashesy : >> Reading the Wikipedia page >> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position-independent_code) , it seems >> Windows supports PIC on x64, >> Please correct me if I am wrong. >> I was wonderi

[Mingw-w64-public] Position independent code (-fPIC) on x86_64 Windows dll specially for Cygwin

2012-08-08 Thread dashesy
rebaseall at least on x64 platform and avoid the fork failures. Thanks dashesy -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] user access control

2011-05-25 Thread dashesy
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Prof Brian Ripley > wrote: >> The following article has the most info I have found: >> >> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa905330.aspx >> >> It includes: >> >> Before a 32 bit process is created, the following attributes are >> checked to determine whet

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] mingw-w64 Decimal Floating Point math

2011-04-09 Thread dashesy
t;> to represent things like 1/128 exactly, use binary. >> >> (In practice, for the same word size, binary is somewhat more >> accurate, because in decimal a single decimal digit is usually >> stored in four bits, wasting the difference between a decimal >> digit and