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From: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>
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Subject: Re: cygwin emacs gtk2 problem fix
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:41:46 +0200
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d.henman wrote:

 > I have found a simple fix to for the cygwin emacs gtk2 problem,
 > as mentioned in the etc/PROBLEM file.
 > [...]
 >
 > +  $ export G_SLICE=always-malloc
 > +  $ emacs

Confirmed. It works just fine!

Now the question is: could that be done at level of source code?


Cheers,
    Angelo.