Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/05/06/06:32:04
On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 04:07:49PM +0800, Steve Underwood wrote:
> I am using the current version of cygwin (1.3.22). When I build gcc to
> cross-compile for the TI MSP430 MCUs the result works OK on 2000 and XP
> machines. On some Win98 and Me machines it works, but on others it
> crashes with a segmentation violation. I traced this to a problem with
> anonymous mmap. If I keep calling mmap on the problem machines it keeps
> returning the same memory pointer twice. If I patch GCC to check for a
> repeat of the same memory pointer, and allocate again until it gets a
> different pointer, my GCC build seems to run OK on these problem machines.
>
> The results are not random. They follow a pattern. If I allocate 65536
> byte blocks, I consistently get the same pointer twice, before I get a
> pointer 65536 bytes greater. If I allocate 16384 byte blocks, I get four
> pointers incrementing by 0x4000 each. Then I get a repeat of the fourth
> pointer. Then I get four more properly incrementing pointers.
Weird, especially that it only happens on 9x...
> I tried downloading the source code for cygwin, to build it, and do a
> little debugging of my own. However, the make files build most of the
> code, and then fail saying there is no rule to make
> /usr/lib/w32api/Makefile needed by /lib/. The make dependancies are a
> little intertwined, and I gave up trying to find the cause of this problem.
Did you build in the source dir? Don't do this. For more info see
http://cygwin.com/contrib.html
> Can anyone help?
Please create a *brief* testcase in C which encounters the above mmap
problem and send it to this list. I'll have a look, then.
Did I mention that the testcase should be as short as possible?
Corinna
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