pemalloc in PHP_MINIT_FUNCTION segfaults on win (but not on linux)

Hello pecl-dev, executive summary: in php-5.2.0 (or 5.0.0), is it ok to do a pemalloc in the PHP_MINIT_FUNCTION? If not, what is the appropriate (minimalist) way to provide memory that is going to be shared globally among all threads/clients? slightly more verbose explanation: this is my PHP_MINIT_FUNCTION PHP_MINIT_FUNCTION(stack) { StackContext(s) = (STACK *)pemalloc(sizeof(STACK),1); return SUCCESS; } to have a globally shared stack. (To be shared among different threads/clients.) Much more detail (including full source of the toy 'stack' example) at http://www.blasum.net/holger/journal/20070312/ (valgrinding it on linux gves me 'ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 29 from 2)', for the suppressed ones i have 25 in libc5 and 4 in dl_relocate_object, so apparently not php-related) Many thanks in advance for any help (e.g.: is this generally the 'right way' of doing this? (I admit that I wanted to avoid resources because they seem thread-specific.) Did I make a subtle error or is it a win-specific thing?... ) -- Holger Blasum +49-174-7313590 (cell) GnuPG 1024D/ACDFC3B769DC1ED66B47