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A problem with mmap on Win98
- From: Steve Underwood <steveu at coppice dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 16:07:49 +0800
- Subject: A problem with mmap on Win98
Hi all,
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.
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.
Can anyone help?
Regards,
Steve
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