Re: Fix for Cygwin/GSlice problem

[Stefan Monnier]

> +/* Emacs supplies its own malloc, but glib (part of Gtk+) calls
> +   memalign and on Cygwin, that becomes the Cygwin supplied memalign.
> +   As malloc is not the Cygwin malloc, the Cygwin memalign always
> +   returns ENOSYS.  A workaround is to set G_SLICE=always-malloc. */
> +#define G_SLICE_ALWAYS_MALLOC

Why does Cygwin-Emacs use its own malloc rather than the system malloc?


        Stefan