Corinna Vinschen wrote: [snip] > No wonder, it's still based on crappy tests. The attached configure > script is a good example of making bold assumptions which match a couple > of systems but the programmer didn't bother to verify the correctness of > the code. > > Note: If the code works on most major Unixy systems, it isn't necessarily > correct.
I agree. The sad thing is that not one function in all the libraries that come with the gcc tree uses the MAP_FIXED flag, only a few of the tests use it. So we end up with bad tools (gcj-dbtool for instance core dumps because its badly implemented for the case where it assumes there is no mmap) or crippled libraries. Those bad assumptions are hurting their own software. -- René Berber -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
