On Feb 19 10:02, Jan Dj?rv wrote:
> The code in question in glib looks like this:
>
> static gpointer
> allocator_memalign (gsize alignment,
> gsize memsize)
> {
> gpointer aligned_memory = NULL;
> gint err = ENOMEM;
> #if HAVE_COMPLIANT_POSIX_MEMALIGN
> err = posix_memalign (&aligned_memory, alignment, memsize);
> #elif HAVE_MEMALIGN
> errno = 0;
> aligned_memory = memalign (alignment, memsize);
> err = errno;
> #elif HAVE_VALLOC
> errno = 0;
> aligned_memory = valloc (memsize);
> err = errno;
> #else
> /* simplistic non-freeing page allocator */
> ...
> #endif
>
>
> The #else part only calls malloc, and I assumed that it works on cygwin.
> It would be a small thing to figure out which part is used on cygwin if the
> config.h was available.
I assume you're going to do that. If you could come up with a simple
OOTB testcase which reproduces the problem, the simpler for us to fix
a potential bug.
Note that Cygwin exports memalign and valloc for a longer time now,
posix_memalign is only available in the developer snapshots.
Corinna
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