Broken autoconf mmap test (was Re: 1.7] BUG - GREP slows to a crawl with large number of matches on a single file)

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Nov  8 14:56, 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.

I just found that the latest autoconf *still* has this broken test
for mmap, which basically calls

  data2 = malloc (size);
  mmap(data2, ...);

Why has this test never been fixed?  Chuck?


Corinna

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