Re: Building without Emacs malloc, possible?

[Stefan Monnier]

> What is the status of building without Emac malloc?  There are some problems
> on cygwin + Gtk.  Basically Gtk+ (glib actually) calls memalign, but on
> cygwin this does not call the Emacs supplied memalign, but cygwins own.
> Since malloc is the one Emacs has, cygwin memalign refuses to work.  I don't
> know why the Emace memalign is not called, dynamic libraries on W32 seems to
> behave strange in this regard.

BTW, isn't the problem that Emacs uses `posix_memalign' because it's found
in libc, even though its own malloc doesn't provide it?


        Stefan