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Re: PCH tests fail on sparc-sun-solaris2.7

 > From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@koffie.nl>
 > 
 > Geoff Keating wrote:
 > > 
 > > >  > > pretty much all of the PCH tests fail on sparc-sun-solaris2.7.
 > 
 > > > I.e. mmap does not return -1 indicating an error.  I'm not sure if
 > > > 0x5b is a suspicious address though.  I can't access it.
 > > 
 > > That's very weird.  0x5b can't possibly be right, it's got to be
 > > page-aligned.
 > 
 > Maybe it's related to this comment (from ggc-page.c):
 > 
 >   /* StunOS has an amazing off-by-one error for the first mmap allocation
 >      after fiddling with RLIMIT_STACK.  The result, as hard as it is to
 >      believe, is an unaligned page allocation, which would cause us to
 >      hork badly if we tried to use it.  */
 > 
 > ...or maybe not.  No idea how old this comment is.
 > Segher

I'm pretty sure that comment referred to SunOS4, not solaris2.

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Kaveh R. Ghazi			ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu
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