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 09:00:01 +0200 Lines: 17 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: > On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Krzysztof Duleba wrote: > >>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. > > Actually, you're right. Perhaps it depends on what kind of malloc the > program uses (i.e., whether it uses the Cygwin builtin malloc, or > something else). That's strange. How could Perl use something essentially different than malloc? I thought it would all come down to brk or sbrk. 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/