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Re: Building without Emacs malloc, possible?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Building without Emacs malloc, possible? |
Date: |
Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:07:34 +0200 |
> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:57:59 +0100
> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> >
> > That is very unfortunate. Using system malloc will cause Emacs to
> > grow in its footprint much more than it does with gmalloc, possibly an
> > unlimited growth. Did you try asking for advice on the Cygwin mailing
> > list?
>
> Yes, the advice was that Emacs should not use its own malloc in this case.
Not a very useful advice, IMO. But then what else can we hope for,
since there's no maintainer of Cygwin Emacs?