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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 22:00:03 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: test failures building perl on cygwin - continued
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On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 05:00:21PM -0400, John Peacock wrote:
>No, but if I want to step through the code to see exactly where the
>malloc goes awry, I need gdb, don't I.

Early in this discussion, Egor Duda suggested that you take a look at
a document that he wrote called "how-to-debug-cygwin.txt".  This tells
you how to configure cygwin with malloc debugging.  This causes cygwin
to go through very extensive tests on each malloc/free and report on
block overruns or double frees with information about where the block
was first allocated.

This is what I mean by malloc debugging.

cgf

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