mmap() and gcc precompiled headers

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Thu Jul 3 14:32:00 GMT 2003


On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 04:30:10PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:19:42AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:47:28AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >Do you mean something like this:
>> >
>> >  If addr is given, check if it's 64K aligned.  If not, align and
>> >  raise the memory requirement accordingly.  Call MapViewOfFileEx
>> >  with the aligned address.  If it works, return the addr given as
>> >  parameter, otherwise return MapViewOfFileEx(NULL).
>> 
>> How about, instead, just use the address and if it fails and is not
>> MAP_FIXED, use MapViewOfFileEx without the address?
>
>Yep, that's the simple approach.  I dropped this suggestion from my
>original reply since it requires addr to be on a 64k boundary.  
>Unfortunately I have no idea if the chance to succeed might be better
>or worse than using the more complex approach.
>
>Either way, it's not us but gcc being on the wrong track.  If gcc relies
>on getting the same address it should use MAP_FIXED at least on hosts
>known to support MAP_FIXED correctly.

Anyone want to try patching gcc and sending a message to gcc-patches?

cgf

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