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 Message-ID: <42E89E70.3000605@familiehaase.de> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:59:28 +0200 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com CC: Krzysztof Duleba Subject: Re: perl - segfault on "free unused scalar" References: <42E76865.4000301@familiehaase.de> <42E7B413.8040203@familiehaase.de> <42E89C2C.5040506@familiehaase.de> <42E89D27.4030606@familiehaase.de> In-Reply-To: <42E89D27.4030606@familiehaase.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > >> Krzysztof Duleba wrote: >> >>> Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >>> >>>> 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. >> >> >> >> Perl has its own malloc implementation. > > > However, it should automatically undefine usemymalloc for configure if > usethreads is defined, I'll need to check this. Hmmm, no it isn't, see perl -V: ... usemymalloc=y ... Now that I'm thinking about it it is just multiplicity which is defined when building with threads. I'll try to build with the system malloc to see if it makes a difference. Gerrit -- =^..^= -- 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/