I just did an upgrade of the latest Cygwin packages this morning. Then from minty window I enter $ emacs -Q -nw
***MEMORY-ERROR***: [4068]: GSlice: failed to allocate 504 bytes (alignment: 512): Function not implemented Aborted (core dumped) I don't believe Cygwin updated emacs. $ cygcheck -c emacs emacs 24.3-1 OK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple