From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject: Re: dll, java, gcc, cygwin
28 Oct 1998 16:29:53 -0800
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To: Glen Fullmer-EGF002 <Glen_Fullmer-EGF002 AT email DOT mot DOT com>,
        khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu
Cc: mickish AT cmu DOT edu, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com


Have you tried using the libmmalloc.a library that comes with the
cygwin package for your malloc and friends routines?  Note: that there
are two m's and is a Mapped Memory Allocation package.  This has
seemed to fix various other porters problems when I've suggested it.


---Glen Fullmer-EGF002 <Glen_Fullmer-EGF002 AT email DOT mot DOT com> wrote:
>
> 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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