changeset 76142:0042363314f0

* PROBLEMS: Gtk+ and cygwin doesn't work.
author Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
date Sun, 25 Feb 2007 09:55:55 +0000
parents 80a9687ba4c5
children 6bf81a05463e
files etc/ChangeLog etc/PROBLEMS
diffstat 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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+2007-02-25  Jan Dj,Ad(Brv  <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
+
+	* PROBLEMS: Gtk+ and cygwin doesn't work.
+
 2007-02-23  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
 
 	* MORE.STUFF: Add a pointer to Phil Sung's Emacs slides on MIT.
--- a/etc/PROBLEMS	Sun Feb 25 09:24:29 2007 +0000
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS	Sun Feb 25 09:55:55 2007 +0000
@@ -213,6 +213,17 @@
 This happens because of bugs in Gtk+.  Gtk+ 2.10 seems to be OK.  See bug
 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715.
 
+** 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.  A fix for this
+problem would be welcome.
+
 * General runtime problems
 
 ** Lisp problems