* Re: malloc segfaults Fixed
@ 2003-09-04 17:15 Juergen Bohn
2003-09-05 7:14 ` Corinna Vinschen
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Juergen Bohn @ 2003-09-04 17:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Thank you very much. It works.
Only one remark: errno is still much earlier set to 12 (Not enough memory)
than x=malloc(10000) is NULL. I don't know if this is of interest.
Is it possible to get your patch as snapshot for 1.3.22 too?
Thanks,
Juergen
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 03:35:04PM +0200, Juergen Bohn wrote:
>> Tested with cygwin1.dll 1.5.3-1 and 1.3.22-1 on Win2000-SP4, malloc() does
>> not (always)
>> return NULL if there is no more memory available. Try, for example, simple
>> loops like:
>>
>> x = malloc(10000);
>> for (i=0; x != NULL; i++)
>> {
>> x = malloc(10000);
>> if (x == NULL) printf("x is NULL\n");
>> }
>>
>> My application terminates with a segmentation violation, but all attempts
>
> I've applied a patch to cygwin which solves this problem. You should
> get NULL at one point instead.
>
>> to handle this by signal() or atexit() fail. Unfortunately, also sysconf()
>> does not work to get the number of available pages (_SC_AVPHYS_PAGES, I get
>> always the same but wrong value).
>
> I've changed sysconf to return a more accurate value for _SC_AVPHYS_PAGES.
> However, this is not a value you can rely on. Cygwin processes might run
> out of memory even though there are still a lot of physical pages available.
> This is related to the fact that small allocations (less than 1 Meg) are
> taken from the applications heap which might be unraisable for some reason.
>
> Corinna
<http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-09/msg00268.html>
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* Re: malloc segfaults Fixed
2003-09-04 17:15 malloc segfaults Fixed Juergen Bohn
@ 2003-09-05 7:14 ` Corinna Vinschen
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From: Corinna Vinschen @ 2003-09-05 7:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 07:15:23PM +0200, Juergen Bohn wrote:
> Is it possible to get your patch as snapshot for 1.3.22 too?
No, there will be no patches to 1.3.x anymore.
Corinna
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