Can I tell which version of newlib I have?
Ray Hurst
rhurst2@cox.net
Tue Apr 24 22:19:00 GMT 2007
Brian Dessent wrote:
> Brian Dessent wrote:
>
>> The version you are using is whatever was current in CVS when the
>> version of Cygwin you're using was built. Newlib doesn't really do
>> versions, other than a token release every year around December.
>>
>> But that's completely irrelevant for anything relating to malloc, as
>> Cygwin does not use newlib for malloc.
>
> Oh and as for the second part of the question, here is a quote from
> how-to-debug-cygwin.txt:
>
> 7. Heap corruption
>
> If your program crashes at malloc() or free() or when it references
> some
> malloc()'ed memory, it looks like heap corruption. You can configure
> and
> build special version of cygwin1.dll which includes heap sanity
> checking.
> To do it, just add --enable-malloc-debugging option to configure. Be
> warned,
> however, that this version of dll is _very_ slow (10-100 times slower
> than
> normal), so use it only when absolutely necessary.
>
> Brian
>
It was my understanding that if I write a C program and compiled it with
gcc that gcc used newlib for all of the stdlib functions including
malloc, realloc and free.
Ray
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