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Re:Compiler bug? Linker bug? Windows Kernel bug by rurban on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @02:12AM (#16471628)
Still a linker bug to me. Where did it became a kernel bug? Looks like wrong usage of memory-mapped I/O, not like a bug in memory-mapped I/O itself.
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Re:Compiler bug? Linker bug? Windows Kernel bug by brucedawson on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @02:47AM (#16481420)
The linker did nothing wrong. It wrote to a file using memory mapped I/O. Shortly afterwards the build system tried to run the just-linked file. This is supposed to work. It usually does. Due to this bug it occasionally doesn't.

The linkers are getting a compatibility hack (FlushFileBuffers call) but this is not supposed to be necessary, by the file-system contract.

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