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From: "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: perl - segfault on "free unused scalar"
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 18:49:57 +0100
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----Original Message----
>From: Krzysztof Duleba
>Sent: 27 July 2005 17:56

>  Then why does the following code fail?

  To find out, run /bin/perl.8.6.exe under gdb/insight and breakpoint sbrk.
You'll see that VirtualAlloc is failing.  By reassigning $eip to
GetLastError immediately after one of the failing calls, you'll see that the
problem is error code 487 - ERROR_INVALID_ADDRESS.  Perhaps there's
something else occupying the memory map that prevents the heap from being
extended contiguously.

  In any case, you should be able to improve things by setting the
heap_chunk_in_mb registry key.  Turn it up waaaay big!


    cheers,
      DaveK
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Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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