Applied updates and changes for CI tests #1

Job	Run time
coverage_cygwin (--enable-code-coverage --enable-wide-character-type --enable-winapi, cygwin64-gc...	6m 0s
coverage_linux (ubuntu-24.04, gcc, CPPFLAGS=-DHAVE_MEMORY_TESTS=1 --enable-code-coverage --enable...	43s
coverage_mingw (--enable-code-coverage --enable-wide-character-type --enable-winapi, mingw-w64-gc...	5m 5s
	11m 48s

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