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Re: newlib/libc/stdlib/mallocr.c
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin-Developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 10:16:55 -0500
- Subject: Re: newlib/libc/stdlib/mallocr.c
- References: <3CA9A7A9.1A8AD3C5@yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 07:44:25AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>In my modifying Cygwin source for MSYS I began having issues with malloc
>and the offending pieces being within this source. I noticed that the
>HAVE_MMAP macro was set to 0 by default instead of 1 by default as
>Dave's documentation says that it does. Modifying the macro value to 1
>caused all of the problems I was experiencing to disappear.
>
>Do other Cygwin developers see benefit for a patch to newlib?
Can you describe the problem? I guess it's possible that allowing this code
would fix the out-of-memory heap issues we continually have but, the last time
I benchmarked this, using mmap had a performance hit. This was on UNIX but
I can't imagine it isn't the same on cygwin.
cgf