Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Krzysztof Duleba Subject: Re: perl - segfault on "free unused scalar" Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 06:22:53 +0200 Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <42E76865.4000301@familiehaase.de> <42E7B413.8040203@familiehaase.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/