[Mingw-users] Possible strange behaviour of gcc

[Earnie Boyd]

--- Martin Kahlert <martin.kahlert@infineon.com> wrote:
> Hi!
> I have a strange behaviour of gcc on Windows (mingw-version):
> 
> I have to link a binary only lib to my application and it 
> crashes when i use a string constant which is 
> (including the trailing '\0') longer than 8 chars.
> 
> I thought, it was a classical memory allocation problem,
> but the application reserves 10 Bytes for the string.
> 
> So i tried -fwritable-strings, but no success, either.
> 
> Does gcc behave somehow differently, when a data item exceeds 8 Bytes?
> I assume, my problem has to do with an incompatibility of the two compilers 
> (MSVC and gcc).
> 

Add -fnative-struct to the build of your gcc objects and see if that helps.

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com

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