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From:	Krzysztof Duleba <krzysan AT skrzynka DOT pl>
Subject:	Re: perl - segfault on "free unused scalar"
Date:	Thu, 28 Jul 2005 06:22:53 +0200
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Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

>>After setting heap_chunk_in_mb to 2048, all those tests passed. Thanks! But I
>>still don't understand why C isn't bound by heap_chunk_in_mb and perl is.
> 
> I think you're confused.  All Cygwin programs, including those written in
> C, are bound by heap_chunk_in_mb.  Unless you are somehow generating a
> pure Windows program from your C source (e.g., using "gcc -mno-cygwin")...

I am not. I understand that this is how it should work theoretically, but 
I've _checked_ that on a couple of Cygwin boxes with different versions of 
cygwin1.dll and gcc. All of them didn't really care that heap_chunk_in_mb 
was undefined in the registry. Perl, on the other hand, do care.

Krzysztof Duleba


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