From: spolk AT cygnus DOT com (Syd Polk) Subject: Re: Question about Sergey's heap change 9 Apr 1998 02:59:44 -0700 Message-ID: <352C9620.61FD2B42.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@cygnus.com> References: <01BD634B DOT A44F7650 AT sos> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com" Sergey Okhapkin wrote: > > Geoffrey Noer wrote: > > > - heap_chunk_in_mb = reg.get_key ().get_int ("heap_chunk_in_mb", 8); > > > + heap_chunk_in_mb = reg.get_key ().get_int ("heap_chunk_in_mb", 128); > > > if (heap_chunk_in_mb < 4) > > > { > > > heap_chunk_in_mb = 4; > > > > Are there reasons why I shouldn't make this change? > > > > With this change the heap is allocated after cygwinb19.dll (adresses > 0x1000XXXX). Some shitware (for example, Xemacs, configured without > "--gung-ho" option) thinks that all pointers have the highest byte set to > zero and uses this byte for storing some internal info. > > -- > Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos > Moscow, Russia I thought old Mac code was the only software that did that... Syd Polk