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Re: 1.3.22-1 on XP: malloc returns overlapping buffers


On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 04:27:39PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 08:45:12AM -0400, roconnor wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 11:12:27PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote:
> >  
> > > This works OK for me on W2K SP1 with cygwin 1.5.x.  Maybe you want to
> > > upgrade to this (i.e. the test version) and see if you still see the
> > > problem.
> > > 
> > 
> > I still see the problem on both XP and W2K with cygwin 1.5.2-1.  Maybe
> > it's related to the size of physical memory?  I have 512M on the XP
> > and W2K systems and 256M on the NT4.0 system (which doesn't see the
> > problem).
> > 
> > One person has emailed my privately to say that he gets similar
> > behavior on his W2K machine, but he doesn't say which version of
> > Cygwin he is running.  I will encourage him to post to the list.
> 
> No need for "me too"'s.  I can reproduce the problem and will have a
> look as soon as my schedule allows.

That should be fixed for the next release.

Thanks for the testcase,
Corinna

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