perl - segfault on "free unused scalar"

[Krzysztof Duleba]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Krzysztof Duleba wrote:
> 
>>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).

That's strange. How could Perl use something essentially different than 
malloc? I thought it would all come down to brk or sbrk.

Krzysztof Duleba


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