From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 15094@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15094: Fix for posix_memalign on Cygwin
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 07:51:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <520CC0C8.2000805@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831u5vpt65.fsf@gnu.org>
On 8/14/2013 10:46 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 15:52:53 -0400
>> From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
>> CC: 15094@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> /* Cygwin allows applications to provide their own malloc. As of
>> cygwin-1.7.24, applications that provide their own malloc are also
>> allowed to provide their own posix_memalign (but not memalign). Calls
>> to memalign are handled by Cygwin's memalign, which always returns
>> ENOSYS if the application has defined its own malloc. So we have to
>> rename memalign in order to make sure that posix_memalign calls
>> Emacs's memalign rather than Cygwin's. */
>
> How does Cygwin memalign come into play, when Emacs provides its own?
As I said in the comment, Cygwin does not let applications define their
own memalign. During linking, calls to memalign become calls to
Cygwin's memalign.
Ken
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-15 11:51 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
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 [this message]
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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