Re: Libtool head: stresstest.at export of w8$ symbol

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Peter, 

Peter Ekberg writes:
> * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Friday, September 09, 2005 10:48 CEST:
> > * Peter Ekberg wrote on Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 03:13:43PM CEST:
> > > * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Thursday, September 08, 2005 09:42 CEST:
> > > > * Peter Ekberg wrote on Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 09:50:01PM CEST:
> > > > > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: 
> >
> > > 
> > > Ah, the \\\1 part needs an extra round of escapes. See new patch. 
> >
> > The new patch still fails with the `w1$' error above. 
> >
> > > Like this?
> > > 
> > > 	* libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh (func_generate_dlsyms):
> > >    Fix escape expression to actually escape relevant
> > >    characters from the following grep. Fix Cygwin and
> > >    MinGW to use the filtered symbol list when exporting
> > >    from self, and not the symbol filter.
> > > 	* tests/stresstest.at: Export w8, not w8$ 
> >
> > I believe not.  :)
> > (Unless I messed up testing your patch)
>
> I think you did, as it works for me. I just tested again. I'm
> attaching the output from

Darn, I did.  Please apply the patch!  And: thank you, I owe you
a beer for this one, too! 

> make check TESTS="" TESTSUITE_FLAGS='-v -d 22'. 
>
> As you can see, it goes on for quite a while before it segfaults,
> and no sign of the errors you see. I had a breif look at this
> new bug and it looks as if there's a problem when accessing v7
> or v8 (first line in main in main.c, line 90 in stresstest.at) 
>
> Perhaps something along the lines of: 
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg01101.html 
>
> I think this bug is present for all of MSVC, MinGW and Cygwin,
> so it smells like some generic windows problem...

Let's see about this later. 

Cheers,
Ralf