From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: 15094-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15094: Fix for posix_memalign on Cygwin
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 15:11:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <520BD64D.2000906@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <520BAEBA.1030306@cornell.edu>
On 8/14/2013 12:22 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> Cygwin allows applications to supply their own malloc but not, until
> today, their own posix_memalign. This has caused problems with the GTK
> build of Emacs on Cygwin. The problem became worse with the latest Glib
> update. Anyone who wants the gory details can find them starting here:
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2013-08/msg00018.html
>
> Cygwin was just patched today to allow applications to supply their own
> posix_memalign (but not their own memalign), which solves the Glib
> problem. But posix_memalign in gmalloc.c calls memalign, so I need to
> make sure that it calls Emacs's memalign. The attached patch does this.
> Is this a reasonable way to handle the problem? (I plan to also add
> an explanatory comment.)
I made this more complicated than necessary. I've installed a simpler
version as bzr revision 113880, and I'm closing the bug.
Ken
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-14 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-14 16:22 bug#15094: Fix for posix_memalign on Cygwin Ken Brown
2013-08-14 19:11 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2013-08-14 19:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-14 19:52 ` Ken Brown
2013-08-15 2:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-15 11:51 ` Ken Brown
2013-08-15 13:00 ` Ken Brown
2013-08-15 16:15 ` Ken Brown
2013-08-15 16:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
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