I discovered the problems why the program I'm trying to port crashed

I discovered the problems why the program I'm trying to port crashed

[w6b7rk5yu4mt25v3]

Quoted from https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-cvs/2020q3/014516.html:

"The file mapping will be only a single page, 4K, and since 64 bit systems don't support the AT_ROUND_TO_PAGE flag, the remainder of the 64K slot will result in a SEGV when accessed."

"The justification is that there's very likely no application actually utilizing the map beyond EOF, and we know that all bytes beyond EOF are set to 0 anyway."

Unfortunately, the application I'm trying to port do exactly that. If you set JIT_PAGE_SIZE to 64k (same as PAGE_SIZE) to satisfy mprotect then it will expect the whole 64k to be accessible. On other systems, no problems. On Cygwin, crashed with segmentation fault. I was right. Not the application's bug, but Cygwin's quirk (I called it as a quirk but not a bug, because it's a limitation of the platform).

Goodbye. It's better to use WSL directly than messing with Cygwin nowadays.

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Re: I discovered the problems why the program I'm trying to port crashed

[Brian Inglis]

On 2023-02-19 09:56, w6b7rk5yu4mt25v3 via Cygwin wrote:
> Quoted from https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-cvs/2020q3/014516.html:
> 
> "The file mapping will be only a single page, 4K, and since 64 bit systems don't support the AT_ROUND_TO_PAGE flag, the remainder of the 64K slot will result in a SEGV when accessed."
> 
> "The justification is that there's very likely no application actually utilizing the map beyond EOF, and we know that all bytes beyond EOF are set to 0 anyway."
> 
> Unfortunately, the application I'm trying to port do exactly that. If you set JIT_PAGE_SIZE to 64k (same as PAGE_SIZE) to satisfy mprotect then it will expect the whole 64k to be accessible. On other systems, no problems. On Cygwin, crashed with segmentation fault. I was right. Not the application's bug, but Cygwin's quirk (I called it as a quirk but not a bug, because it's a limitation of the platform).

SMOP: YMMV
Round up the page size yourself and allocate that value if allocation round up 
not supported on platform or version.
I think if 1 byte is mapped, access to byte 2 should be SEGV/UB/)\;`a__!
                                                                 )/ /-." ~~
                                                                 sb/dwb

> Goodbye. It's better to use WSL directly than messing with Cygwin nowadays.

For small amounts of Windows interoperability with MS "Linux".
May be useful for comparing compatibility, but so are VMs, with fewer MS "quirks".

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

La perfection est atteinte                   Perfection is achieved
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mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer     but when there is no more to cut
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