X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 21:47:17 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: FW: Re: [emacs_user AT hotmail DOT com: ***MEMORY-ERROR***: emacs[5172]: GSlice: failed Message-ID: <20070218024717.GA11156@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 07:20:53PM -0500, emacs user wrote: >any comments?? If someone is positing that one of several functions possibly isn't working in cygwin why not report exactly which function that would be? I.e., a little more work than reposting speculation would be appreciated. cgf >>GSlice is a memory handling function in Gtk+ (Glib). It tries to >>allocate an aligned block of memory using posix_memalign, memalign or >>valloc. I don't know which of these three is used on cygwin, but >>apparently cygwin does not have a correct implementation. I'd say it >>is either a cygwin problem, or a glib problem. The allocation is done >>when Emacs tries to create a widget and is done within the Gtk+ liby. >>There is nothing Emacs can do to fix this. It must be done in cygwin >>(by implemeting whatever function is used correctly) or by glib (by >>recovering better from errors like this). -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/