Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 11:43:27 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: fenneckeeprog@caramail.com Subject: Re: pilot-link and debugers Message-ID: <20010301114327.H1326@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, fenneckeeprog@caramail.com References: <983446105012936@caramail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <983446105012936@caramail.com>; from fenneckeeprog@caramail.com on Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 10:28:25AM +0000 On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 10:28:25AM +0000, Fennec Keeprog wrote: >I would like to know if anyone ever tried to compile pilot- link with >cygwin? I've tried and it seems to work well (with few warnings ...) >in fact it works well and i can acces files and do other things ... >but on some functions (like saving things to files) it make a >segmentation fault. I found with gdb that it was on a simple >free(thing) but... This is usually a symptom of a program bug. Some versions of malloc/free are forgiving of this kind scenario: a = malloc (20); . . . free (a); . . . free (a); The double free is wrong and Cygwin's version of malloc will have problems with this. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple