X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <45DB3F03.2020600@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:33:39 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061221 Fedora/1.5.0.9-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: FW: Re: [emacs_user@hotmail.com: ***MEMORY-ERROR***: emacs[5172]: GSlice: failed References: <45D9678E.7090108@swipnet.se> <45DA98EF.6040205@swipnet.se> <45DB2A13.6070606@swipnet.se> In-Reply-To: <45DB2A13.6070606@swipnet.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Jan D. wrote: > Jan Djärv wrote: >> >> Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >>> Thanks much for the details. We do want to make things work correctly >>> but, if that just means some work in emacs source code, then someone who >>> is familiar with emacs will have to do that, i.e., someone else will >>> have to come up with the config.h. >>> >>> OTOH, if someone could debug exactly why the error was occurring from >>> one of the above calls then maybe we could make cygwin work better, >>> too. Again, this requires someone who has access to emacs source >>> and (presumably) knows how to use a debugger. >> >> I got W32 and cygwin up on a (not so fast) spare box, so I'm looking >> in to it now. memalign is definitely the function failing, but >> something more is going on here, I can't yet reduce this to a more >> simple case. >> >> Will keep trying though. >> > > It seems that when Emacs defines its own malloc and friends, memalign > returns ENOSYS. But emacs defines its own memalign as well. Shouldn't > that one be called? Seems like it though it sounds like something that would be controlled by the emacs configure script to me. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/