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Re: *** system shared memory version mismatch detected


Christopher Faylor wrote:
>Brian Dessent wrote:
Check the mailing list archives, I think there were some recent issues
relating to the way the DLL handled interlocking on initialization that
led to spurious cygheap mismatch errors.  Or just try a snapshot.


That would only happen when multiple cygwin processes were started from
non-cygwin processes.

Surely, the OP would not have failed to mention that crucial piece of
data.

Surely not! Actually the OP has not given much info on what he did to trigger the error.


Exceeding the g77 160 MiB limit has been observed to trigger "cygheap base mismatch" error messages, with the advice, "This problem is probably due to using incompatible versions of the cygwin DLL." (It wasn't.)

See

http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-04/msg00305.html

Now this isn't the same error as reported by the OP, but I think it is clear that, with some recent versions of the Cygwin DLL, memory corruption can occur and can produce misleading error messages.

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Mark Hadfield            "Ka puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tatou"
m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)


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