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Re: [RFC PATCH] No more boost::context

 

Tomasz, you’re awesome!! :)

and good catch :)

> On 28 Jan 2016, at 17:42, Tomasz Wlostowski <tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On 23.01.2016 23:53, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>>> I found the issue in Boost causing crashes on x86_64 windows builds.
>>>> 
>>>> Now I have no doubt why Windows Boost developers may have a very good
>>>> reason to hate the x86 GNU assembler (well, not the tool itself but its
>>>> infamous AT&T syntax). Look at the code below:
>>>> 
>>>> mov $0x8, %rcx
>>>> mov 0x8, %rcx
>>>> 
>>>> Translated to a more human-readable form, these two lines mean:
>>>> 
>>>> mov rcx, 0x8
>>>> mov rcx, qword [ds:0x8]
>> Great catch!.  That is just too easy to overlook.
>> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've filed bug reports & sent patches both to boost & MSYS2 maintainers.
> 
> Cheers,
> T.
> 
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