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

[Jan D.]

Jan Djärv wrote:
>
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> Thanks much for the details.  We do want to make things work correctly
>> but, if that just means some work in emacs source code, then someone who
>> is familiar with emacs will have to do that, i.e., someone else will
>> have to come up with the config.h.
>>
>> OTOH, if someone could debug exactly why the error was occurring from
>> one of the above calls then maybe we could make cygwin work better,
>> too.  Again, this requires someone who has access to emacs source
>> and (presumably) knows how to use a debugger.
>
> I got W32 and cygwin up on a (not so fast) spare box, so I'm looking 
> in to it now.  memalign is definitely the function failing, but 
> something more is going on here, I can't yet reduce this to a more 
> simple case.
>
> Will keep trying though.
>

It seems that when Emacs defines its own malloc and friends, memalign 
returns ENOSYS.  But emacs defines its own memalign as well.  Shouldn't 
that one be called?

    Jan D.



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