X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Berber?= Subject: Re: mmap() on 64K aligned address fails Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 16:47:34 -0600 Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <20051126180331.GI5074@bouh.residence.ens-lyon.fr> <20051126214701.GW5074@bouh.residence.ens-lyon.fr> <20051127130652.GT2999@calimero.vinschen.de> <20051127222246.GJ5150@bouh.residence.ens-lyon.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) In-Reply-To: <20051127222246.GJ5150@bouh.residence.ens-lyon.fr> OpenPGP: url=ldap://keyserver.pgp.com X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Samuel Thibault wrote: [snip] > Memmapping to malloced memory could very well be forbidden. Why would > one want to do this? As I said before, the test is one that comes with gcc-4.0.2, it fails only = on Windows as far as I know. To answer your question: is just a test, it shou= ld work with some Windows related tweaking but it's just a test. Besides, what other memory is there available that a process has under its control? Yes, I know, mmap() should be used w/o MAP_FIXED and let the OS c= hoose where to map, but the interesting part of this test is to use MAP_FIXED. --=20 Ren=E9 Berber -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/