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RE: setup crashing (attn Corinna)
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin-apps at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 05:22:41 -0600
- Subject: RE: setup crashing (attn Corinna)
> > Hi!
> >
> > Sunday, 20 January, 2002 Robert Collins robert.collins@itdomain.com.au
> wrote:
> >
> > RC> Something seriously funny was going on in the C++/C runtime
> interaction.
> > RC> Rather than try and explain it, I've linked in a recent version of
> Doug
> > RC> Lea's malloc, which also had a couple of quirks, that I've
> (apparently)
> > RC> fixed.
> >
What'd I miss? What's wrong with the MS-provided malloc in msvcrt*.dll? Or is
this just for debug? It appears to add quite a bit (~10%) to the stripped exe
size.
BTW: Setup built from CVS as of two minutes ago crashes for me as well (WhyXP).
As of earlier today it crashes on Why2K too.
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer. Patriot.