glibc bug mmap/malloc

Andreas Mohr a.mohr at mailto.de
Sat Jul 21 18:36:58 CDT 2001


On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 02:00:36PM -0700, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> Andreas Mohr <a.mohr at mailto.de> writes:
> 
> > I mean, come on: why did they bother to implement malloc() at all
> > if the resulting architecture is THAT broken ?
> 
> It's not broken, it just doesn't play well with programs like Wine
> that muck around with the process address space. But it's a perfectly
> reasonable (if not optimal) implementation for "normal" Unix apps.
Hmm, ok.

But even if we cease and desist, then we still have the problem
of that hazardous malloc() in VIRTUAL_CreateView(), which makes loading
of such big .exes fail.
(and on *many* other places also)

How to fix it ?

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