'char **environ' woes with cygwin

[Michael Elizabeth Chastain]

> I just tested it, and it works fine.

Ok, I am curious.  What does "gdb --statistics" look like?
In particular, the "Space used" line?

    (gdb) file /bin/bash
    Reading symbols from /bin/bash...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
    Command execution time: 0.010000
    Space used: 279516 (+69632 for this command)

Michael