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Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 16:15:19 +0200
From: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [BUG] cygwin-1.3.3-2 -- making auto-import dlls
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What's the exact purpose of this requirement ?

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 05:48:40AM -0700, Karl M wrote:
> >What if we had a distinct dll for the heap (so the cygwin1.dll and
> >cygwin-something-heap.dll) and we statically size the heap as Chris
> >commented about. But...we select which size heap to use locally?
> 
> You're confused.  The size of the heap has nothing to do with anything.
> 
> Putting the heap in a DLL does not solve anything.  It's the cygheap
> address that gets used that is a problem -- at least as far as this
> auto-import situation is concerned.  Cygwin needs to be able to use an
> address that is deterministic and Windows doesn't really guarantee that.
> 
> cgf
>

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