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On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 07:20:53PM -0500, emacs user wrote:
>any comments??

If someone is positing that one of several functions possibly isn't
working in cygwin why not report exactly which function that would be?
I.e., a little more work than reposting speculation would be
appreciated.

cgf

>>GSlice is a memory handling function in Gtk+ (Glib).  It tries to
>>allocate an aligned block of memory using posix_memalign, memalign or
>>valloc.  I don't know which of these three is used on cygwin, but
>>apparently cygwin does not have a correct implementation.  I'd say it
>>is either a cygwin problem, or a glib problem.  The allocation is done
>>when Emacs tries to create a widget and is done within the Gtk+ liby.
>>There is nothing Emacs can do to fix this.  It must be done in cygwin
>>(by implemeting whatever function is used correctly) or by glib (by
>>recovering better from errors like this).

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