Please test the latest developer's snapshot

[David Rothenberger]

On 11/2/2006 2:48 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> The important change here is a slightly different memory allocation
> scheme.  I'd like to hear if this version still runs fine on all OSes,
> not only on Vista so I'd appreciate some feedback in terms of memory
> allocation problems.  Please look for messages as "fixup_mmap_after_fork
> failed", "couldn't allocate heap", stuff like that.

It's been working fine for me for the last couple of days, too, on 
Windows XP Pro SP2.

> The new memory allocation scheme could result in the necessity to rebase
> again.  The usual base address of 0x70000000 for rebase *might* result
> in problems with applications using mmap and runtime loaded DLLs.  So,
> if you get such a problem, please call rebase(all) with a base addresses
> of, say, 0x65000000 and try again.

I had to rebaseall to 0x65000000 to get ruby to work. I encountered a 
hang when trying to build subversion 1.4.0 until I rebased. Worked great 
after that, though.

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