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Message-ID: <025101c1a1c5$ba4b2280$0200a8c0@lifelesswks>
From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: <cygwin-apps AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
References: <022e01c1a1b6$da6c6060$0200a8c0 AT lifelesswks>
Subject: Re: setup crashing (attn Corinna)
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 02:18:33 +1100
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Oh, nearly forgot, theres' a minor w32api change as well needed to build
this.

Rob
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: <cygwin-apps AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 12:32 AM
Subject: setup crashing (attn Corinna)


> Corinna,
>
> Something seriously funny was going on in the C++/C runtime
interaction.
> Rather than try and explain it, I've linked in a recent version of
Doug
> Lea's malloc, which also had a couple of quirks, that I've
(apparently)
> fixed.
>
> If you could see if the problematic site still affects you that would
be
> great. (It doesn't affect me anymore).
>
> I did find some oddities, but fixing them didn't resolve the issue,
> which is why the new malloc...
>
> Even once a malloc strace showed no double-frees, not delete of new[]
or
> malloc'd data etc etc, it would still have that HEAP error. *shrug*.
>
> Rob
>
>