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Remove resolved GTK on Cygwin problem.

106497:d06619fa1742

crashes or exits unexpectedly and an attempt is made to create a new
frame on another X display, then a Gtk+ error happens in the emacs
server that results in an endless loop.  This is not fixed in any known
Gtk+ version (2.14.4 being current).

** Emacs compiled with Gtk+ crashes on startup on Cygwin.

A typical error message is
  ***MEMORY-ERROR***: emacs[5172]: GSlice: failed to allocate 504 bytes
  (alignment: 512): Function not implemented

Emacs supplies its own malloc, but glib (part of Gtk+) calls memalign and on
Cygwin, that becomes the Cygwin supplied memalign.  As malloc is not the
Cygwin malloc, the Cygwin memalign always returns ENOSYS.

One workaround is to set G_SLICE=always-malloc before starting emacs.
For example, in bash,

  G_SLICE=always-malloc emacs

or put

  export G_SLICE=always-malloc

in one of the bash startup files.  This also has to be done before
building emacs on Cygwin with Gtk+.

* General runtime problems

** Lisp problems

*** Changes made to .el files do not take effect.

106498:b151ed491d50

crashes or exits unexpectedly and an attempt is made to create a new
frame on another X display, then a Gtk+ error happens in the emacs
server that results in an endless loop.  This is not fixed in any known
Gtk+ version (2.14.4 being current).

* General runtime problems

** Lisp problems

*** Changes made to .el files do not take effect.