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Re: 1.7] BUG - GREP slows to a crawl with large number of matches on a single file


On 08/11/2009 07:56, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Btw., the check for mmap in grep's configure file is broken.  It tries
to mmap to a fixed address formerly allocated via malloc().  This doesn't
work on Windows.  An autoconf run with a newer version of autoconf would
be nice.

You said the same thing over five years ago: :-)


http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg00753.html

AFAIK the autoconf test has not changed since then. cygport sets ac_cv_func_mmap_fixed_mapped=yes for this very reason.


Yaakov


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