FW: Re: [emacs_user@hotmail.com: ***MEMORY-ERROR***: emacs[5172]: GSlice: failed

[emacs user]

any comments??

>From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
>To: emacs_user@hotmail.com
>CC: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>Subject: Re: [emacs_user@hotmail.com: ***MEMORY-ERROR***: emacs[5172]: 
>GSlice: failed to allocate]
>Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:48:11 +0100
>
>Richard Stallman skrev:
> > Can you please DTRT and ack?
> >
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> > From: "emacs user" <emacs_user@hotmail.com>
> > To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
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> > Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:49:00 -0500
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> > Subject: ***MEMORY-ERROR***: emacs[5172]: GSlice: failed to allocate
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> > 	autolearn=failed version=3.0.4
> >
> > latest cvs from today, configured with gtk, compiled under cygwin:
> >
> > $ /usr/local/emacs/src/emacs.exe -Q
> >
> > ***MEMORY-ERROR***: emacs[5172]: GSlice: failed to allocate 504 bytes
> > (alignment: 512): Function not implemented
>
>GSlice is a memory handling function in Gtk+ (Glib).  It tries to allocate 
>an
>aligned block of memory using posix_memalign, memalign or valloc.  I don't
>know which of these three is used on cygwin, but apparently cygwin does not
>have a correct implementation.  I'd say it is either a cygwin problem, or a
>glib problem. The allocation is done when Emacs tries to create a widget 
>and
>is done within the Gtk+ liby.  There is nothing Emacs can do to fix this.  
>It
>must be done in cygwin (by implemeting whatever function is used correctly) 
>or
>by glib (by recovering better from errors like this).
>
>	Jan D.

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