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Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:16:42 +0200
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit AT familiehaase DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Bug identified [was RE: perl - segfault on "free unused scalar"]
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Dave,

Some comments on your analysis.

The latest perl uses auto-image-base and the base address should be 
different than default.  It fails anyway.

Perl uses its own malloc, rebuilding with the system malloc shows
that it behaves similar than the C examples, I think the recent
changes in Cygwin do what they should do: make setting the heap
size superflous.

I will release another update of perl using the cygwin malloc *now*,
there is another problem which is exposed by Test::Harness, so I'll
need to update perl anyway to fix Test::Harness.

However, feel free to dig deeper if you think that you want to
improve cygwin.


Gerrit
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