From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: "9273@debbugs.gnu.org" <9273@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#9273: 23.3; malloc initialization should (sometimes) happen at runtime
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:52:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E42C567.2000303@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zkjhxnty.fsf@gnu.org>
On 8/10/2011 11:56 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:09:48 -0400
>> From: Ken Brown<kbrown@cornell.edu>
>
>> But when the dumped emacs is run, it uses Cygwin's sbrk, which
>> allocates memory on a heap that won't (as of Cygwin 1.7.10) be
>> contiguous with the static heap. The saved value of _heapbase,
>> which points into the static heap, is never changed, but it will
>> mess up later calculations as soon as sbrk is called for the first
>> time.
>
> Are you sure this is all that's at work here? AFAIR, gmalloc does
> have code to cope with non-contiguous memory regions returned by sbrk.
The issue isn't that sbrk returns non-contiguous regions. The issue is
that two different of sbrk are used. One is used when temacs is
running, and a different one is used when the dumped emacs.exe is
running. This is controlled by the Cygwin-specific code in gmalloc.c,
and it has to do with the way unexec works in the Cygwin build of emacs.
>> All of this is described in detail on the Cygwin mailing list in the
>> thread starting at
>>
>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-08/msg00153.html
>>
>> See especially
>>
>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-08/msg00193.html
>
> I have read all the discussion there, but I'm sorry to say that I
> cannot figure out what you are talking about: there's too much
> Cygwin-isms in that thread that I couldn't penetrate.
Thanks for trying.
>> Maybe the solution is for emacs to do malloc initialization, including
>> the assignment of _heapbase, every time it starts, at least on systems
>> that use gmalloc.c.
>
> Most supported systems don't need that. The native Windows build
> indeed does, see w32heap.c. Perhaps you could reuse some or even most
> of it for Cygwin. (What is so special about the Cygwin sbrk that is
> worth sticking to it?)
Thanks for the suggestions.
Ken
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-10 17:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-09 20:09 bug#9273: 23.3; malloc initialization should (sometimes) happen at runtime Ken Brown
2011-08-10 0:24 ` Richard Stallman
2011-08-10 15:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-10 17:52 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2011-08-10 18:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-10 18:49 ` Ken Brown
2011-08-11 21:45 ` Ken Brown
2011-08-12 6:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-12 10:10 ` Ken Brown
2011-08-12 11:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-12 12:18 ` Ken Brown
2011-08-12 20:24 ` Ken Brown
2011-08-13 8:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-13 13:48 ` Ken Brown
2011-08-13 14:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-13 14:53 ` Ken Brown
2011-08-13 15:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-08-13 15:33 ` Ken Brown
2011-08-13 19:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-08-14 3:13 ` Ken Brown
2011-08-16 13:30 ` Ken Brown
2011-08-12 23:51 ` grischka
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