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Christopher Faylor wrote:

> 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.

I did that comment, it is not speculation.  I currently have no W32 machine, 
hence no cygwin at all.  I don't know how the original poster configured Gtk+, 
I don't know which version of cygwin he/she has, I don't know which version of 
Gtk+ he/she has.  I only tried to find out if Emacs could fix this somehow, 
which it can't.  If the original poster (emacs_user AT hotmail DOT com) can send in 
his/hers config.h from the Gtk+ configuration, we can figure out what function 
we are talking about.

	Jan D.

> 
> 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).


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