From: Glen_Fullmer-EGF002 AT email DOT mot DOT com (Glen Fullmer-EGF002)
Subject: Re: dll, java, gcc, cygwin
27 Oct 1998 10:31:03 -0800
Message-ID: <199810270005.SAA08990.cygnus.gnu-win32@emerald.ccrl.mot.com>
References: <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 93 DOT 981026173739 DOT 25460B-100000 AT modi DOT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu>
To: khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu
Cc: Glen Fullmer-EGF002 <Glen_Fullmer-EGF002 AT email DOT mot DOT com>, mickish AT cmu DOT edu,
        gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Hi Mumit,

>>>>> "MK" == Mumit Khan <khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu> writes:

   MK> Tried something similar, and sure enough, it crashed and burned.
   MK> getenv() probably calls something that calls malloc. If malloc fails,
   MK> the system is pretty much useless.

Yep, also just:

     char *mstr;
     mstr = malloc(100);

fails, in the helloworld example.
     
   MK> Of course, everything seems to work when using mingw, but then you
   MK> lose the POSIX layer.

Yeah, we wouldn't want to do that. ;-)

   MK> problem must be due to some (bad) interaction of MSVC runtime loaded
   MK> by Java and Cygwin runtime loaded by the JNI dll.

Ok, but I don't understand.  So you are saying that Java might be using a
runtime library that is not compatible with the DLL library?

Thanks, 
Glen
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