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From: Tom H. <to...@co...> - 2005-11-02 14:57:20
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In message <yek...@de...>
Tom Hughes <to...@co...> wrote:
> Does the as_mmap test serve any purpose now?
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> It tries to map a chunk of memory at various fixed addresses in
> memory - presumably the idea was to check that it couldn't map in
> the valgrind areas. Certainly both sets of expected results show
> it failing at the high addresses.
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> With the address space manager there are no longer any real guarantees
> about which addresses might or might not be available and one of the
> areas that is expected to fail is actually working on amd64.
Much the same applies to as_shm as well, which is trying to attach a
shared memory segment at a high address and expecting it to fail.
Tom
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