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Dear cygwin friends, while debugging some emacs related problem, we seem to 
come to the conclusion that there is a cygwin issue here.  can someone 
please comment on this?


>From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>
> > From: "emacs user" <emacs_user@hotmail.com>
> > Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
> > Bcc:
> > Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 01:06:22 -0400
> >
> > #kill it
> > #(clear-image-cache t)
> > I am here1
> > I am here2
> > I am here4
> > I am here5
> > I am here6
> > I am here5
> > I am here6
>
>Okay, thanks.  This shows that free_image does get called.
>
>What image types did you try till now?  If you tried with only one
>image type, please see if other image types exhibit the same problem
>(i.e. that memory is not returned to system when an image is killed
>and the image cache cleared).

problem occurs with both jpeg and gif.  I didnt try others

>If you already tried all the supported image types, I cannot think of
>any reason but one: that the Cygwin implementation of malloc/free does
>not return freed memory to the OS.  If this is the conclusion, then it
>should probably be taken up with Cygwin maintainers on their mailing
>list.

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