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-rw-r--r--winsup/cygwin/init.cc10
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/init.cc b/winsup/cygwin/init.cc
index 1728105ef..5b84b1cc0 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/init.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/init.cc
@@ -70,6 +70,10 @@ munge_threadfunc ()
void dll_crt0_0 ();
+/* Non-static fake variable so GCC doesn't second-guess if we *really*
+ need the alloca'd space in the DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH case below... */
+void *alloca_dummy;
+
extern "C" BOOL WINAPI
dll_entry (HANDLE h, DWORD reason, void *static_load)
{
@@ -85,12 +89,12 @@ dll_entry (HANDLE h, DWORD reason, void *static_load)
/* Starting with adding the POSIX-1.2008 per-thread locale functionality,
we need an initalized _REENT area even for the functions called from
- dll_crt0_0. In fact, we only need the _REENT->_locale pointer
+ dll_crt0_0. Most importantly, we need the _REENT->_locale pointer
initialized to NULL, so subsequent calls to locale-specific functions
will always fall back to __global_locale, rather then crash due to
_REENT->_locale having an arbitrary value. */
- (void) alloca (CYGTLS_PADSIZE);
- _REENT->_locale = NULL;
+ alloca_dummy = alloca (CYGTLS_PADSIZE);
+ memcpy (_REENT, _GLOBAL_REENT, sizeof (struct _reent));
dll_crt0_0 ();
_my_oldfunc = TlsAlloc ();