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Re: mmap(2)-like allocation of buffer text on MS-Windows


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: mmap(2)-like allocation of buffer text on MS-Windows
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 15:51:51 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux)

> Starting with trunk revision 117168, the MS-Windows build uses mmap(2)
> emulation code, written by Fabrice Popineau, for allocating buffer
> text.  This allows to stop using gmalloc.c and ralloc.c on this
> platform, and thus get rid of the nasty problems with buffer text
> relocation when large chunks of memory are allocated.

Yay!  Thanks Fabrice et.al!

> (There are still a few other platforms that use ralloc.c, though.)

Which ones would that be?


        Stefan



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