I have experienced page faults on sh.exe when running make. It appears that the issue is related to very long command lines (the particular command line that caused the problems was a arm-elf-gcc invokation of about 950 characters). I experienced this on one machine, then it went away - I thought I'd solved it by uninstalling Cygwin, but the problem reappered on another machine. I suspect a buffer overrun or similar, hence the unpredictable behaviour. I replaced the sh.exe in the WinARM Version 20060117 distribution with zsh.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/UnxUpdates.zip. This seems to have solved the problem, but I have not tested it on a large sample. I note that in the recent update you are now using MinGW. Probably wise, but since it seems that I now have a stable toolchain, I'll stick with it for now - unless anyone can give me a compelling reason to migrate? Thanks for the great work BTW, getting rid of Cygwin dependency has solved a number of issues for me. Clifford
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Clifford Slocombe wrote: > I replaced the sh.exe in the WinARM Version 20060117 distribution with > zsh.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/UnxUpdates.zip. This seems > to have solved the problem, but I have not tested it on a large sample. Thanks for the information. > I note that in the recent update you are now using MinGW. Probably wise, > but since it seems that I now have a stable toolchain, I'll stick with > it for now - unless anyone can give me a compelling reason to migrate? Oh, I hope that it's not only "probably wise". I have got some problem-reports for the previous WinARM-versions which could all be solved with the mingw-tools. I have now decided to include the mingw-Tools as default. WinAVR includes the mingw-tools too an a lot of people use WinAVR so I guess it not a very unwise to follow them. No problem if the old tools work for you, but I will stay with the mingw-tools until there are new problems reported which are caused by them. I will keep your suggestions about the unxupdates-zsh in mind. > Thanks for the great work BTW, getting rid of Cygwin dependency has > solved a number of issues for me. Issues with the Cygwin-dependency have been one of the reasons to create the first WinARM-collection. I'm glad that the WinARM-collection is useful for you. BTW: additional small examples for the WinARM-example-colletion are always welcome for tests and as templates for own developments. I currently do not own for example a STR7-board so some tested examples for these targets would be a good. (And hitting the google-ads from time to time is of cause welcome too...) Martin Thomas