From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Buehler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCHES] patches for compiling GNU emacs 21.2 under Cygwin Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 11:37:40 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <7263-Wed27Nov2002204304+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038933664 32384 80.91.224.249 (3 Dec 2002 16:41:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 16:41:04 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18JG6W-0008Pg-00 for ; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 17:41:00 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18JGG6-0003kT-00 for ; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 17:50:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18JG7Y-0008S6-00; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 11:42:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18JG72-00086S-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 11:41:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18JG70-00084B-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 11:41:31 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18JG64-0007mU-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 11:40:32 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18JG3m-0008Ej-00 for ; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 17:38:10 +0100 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18JG12-0007zz-00 for ; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 17:35:20 +0100 Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.47.34.2 Original-X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038933319 29907 64.47.34.2 (3 Dec 2002 16:35:19 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 16:35:19 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:9837 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9837 > +/* let's not be adventurous */ > +#define SYSTEM_MALLOC 1 > > Why is that a good idea? Isn't it better to use gmalloc and ralloc? > That should make an Emacs whose memory footprint does not grow that > much, I think. What is so ``adventurous'' in using that? I recompiled emacs 21.2 under Cygwin without SYSTEM_MALLOC, and it appears to work just fine. Under Windows NT, at least -- I'll let you know if the released version gets complaints from users of other versions of Windows. Joe Buehler