On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Krzysztof Duleba wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > > After setting heap_chunk_in_mb to 2048, all those tests passed.
> > > Thanks! But I still don't understand why C isn't bound by
> > > heap_chunk_in_mb and perl is.
> >
> > I think you're confused. All Cygwin programs, including those written
> > in C, are bound by heap_chunk_in_mb. Unless you are somehow
> > generating a pure Windows program from your C source (e.g., using "gcc
> > -mno-cygwin")...
>
> I am not. I understand that this is how it should work theoretically,
> but I've _checked_ that on a couple of Cygwin boxes with different
> versions of cygwin1.dll and gcc. All of them didn't really care that
> heap_chunk_in_mb was undefined in the registry. Perl, on the other hand,
> do care.
Actually, you're right. Perhaps it depends on what kind of malloc the
program uses (i.e., whether it uses the Cygwin builtin malloc, or
something else).
Igor
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