Re: reproducible cygwin memory problems

[emacs user]

> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
>
> > From: "emacs user" <address@hidden>
> > Bcc:
> > Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 02:52:27 -0400
> >
> > images are at:
> > http://www.deas.harvard.edu/climate/eli/emacs-debug/
> >
> > and I already tested this and found the problem not to occur in mingw 
> nor in
> > gnu/linux.
>
> So this would indicate that the problem is specific to Cygwin.
>
> I see several possible ways to try to resolve this:
>
>  . Ask on the Cygwin mailing list if someone knows about this problem
>    and its reason(s);

I tried that.  nothing useful out of that.

>  . Try upgrading to a newer version of Cygwin or downgrading to an
>    older one, and see if that helps;

I tried both, doesnt help

>  . Post here the results of running ./configure; perhaps we should try
>    various options related to memory allocation and see if any of them
>    solve the problem.

OK, will do this shortly.  however, is it also possible that one needs some 
cygwin-specific code, or perhaps this is a bug in an existing 
cygwin-specific code?

configure output to follow shortly.  thanks...  EU

> (Please don't take this discussion off the list; I'm not the only one
> who could contribute ideas.)

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