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Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:31:23 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: eliminated reliance on newlib malloc
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On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 05:41:28PM +0100, Conrad Scott wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>I'm building a snapshot now.  I guess that will be the first step in
>>seeing just what I've broken.
>
>If you're building on cygwin, I assume you'll have noticed that sort(1)
>is now broken; it dies at malloc.cc:3644 in dlmalloc (bytes=768).
>(Sort is used in, at least, speclib, so that's why I assume you would
>notice this problem if you build cygwin.)
>
>On my machine this is an easy bug to reproduce: just running sort with
>no arguments from the command line dies immediately.  Otherwise
>everything I'm using seems fine.

This actually turns out to have been a (gulp) bug in Doug Lea's malloc.
There was a new version available which fixed the problem.  It was
fixed *today*.

Do we have a lurker in our midst or is this just synchronicity at work.

In any event, it was nice to have someone else fix the problem for me.

I'm generating a new snapshot now.

cgf