+2009-11-20 Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> (tiny change)
+
+ * PROBLEMS (http): Add workaround for Cygwin crash.
+
2009-11-17 Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
* NEWS: Mention dynamic font changes (font-use-system-font).
Emacs supplies its own malloc, but glib (part of Gtk+) calls memalign and on
Cygwin, that becomes the Cygwin supplied memalign. As malloc is not the
-Cygwin malloc, the Cygwin memalign always returns ENOSYS. A fix for this
-problem would be welcome.
+Cygwin malloc, the Cygwin memalign always returns ENOSYS.
+
+One workaround is to set G_SLICE=always-malloc before starting emacs.
+For example, in bash,
+
+ G_SLICE=always-malloc emacs
+
+or put
+
+ export G_SLICE=always-malloc
+
+in one of the bash startup files. This also has to be done before
+building emacs on Cygwin with Gtk+.
* General runtime problems