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From: "Paul Edwards" <mutazilah@gmail.com>
To: "Richard Guenther" <richard.guenther@gmail.com>
Cc: <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: i370 port - music/sp - possible generic gcc problem
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:35:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <A8127E96608848FDB5D1167911A9BACE@Paullaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84fc9c000911280802j3a0be6b1p1241d81d91f0672e@mail.gmail.com>

>> Anyway, I tracked down the particular malloc() which gave changed
>> behaviour depending on whether the malloc() did a memory initialization
>> to NULs or not.

> Well, GC hands out non-zeroed memory - the callers are responsible
> for initializing it.  So the fix below is not a fix but papering over an
> issue elswhere.

Hi Richard.

If GC does that, then how come there is all this effort to do
mmap testing to see if it has the facility to zero memory, and
why is the surrounding code (in GCC 4.4's alloc_page())
calling XCNEWVEC instead of XNEWVEC?

Thanks.  Paul.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-28 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 106+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-09 22:33 i370 port Paul Edwards
2009-09-14 15:42 ` Ulrich Weigand
2009-09-15 12:59   ` Paul Edwards
2009-09-15 13:51     ` Ulrich Weigand
2009-09-17 13:00       ` Paul Edwards
2009-09-17 17:55         ` Ulrich Weigand
2009-09-18  0:35           ` Paul Edwards
2009-09-18 12:06             ` Ulrich Weigand
2009-09-18 12:23               ` Paul Edwards
2009-09-18 13:27                 ` Ulrich Weigand
2009-09-18 13:42                   ` Paul Edwards
2009-09-18 16:08                     ` Ulrich Weigand
2009-09-19 12:57                       ` Paul Edwards
2009-09-25 10:19                       ` Paul Edwards
2009-09-25 15:20                         ` Ulrich Weigand
2009-09-30 17:24                           ` i370 port - constructing compile script Paul Edwards
2009-09-30 17:36                             ` Richard Henderson
2009-09-30 21:40                               ` Paul Edwards
     [not found]                                 ` <mcrpr98x9w8.fsf@dhcp-172-17-9-151.mtv.corp.google.com>
2009-10-01  0:16                                   ` Joseph S. Myers
2009-10-01 14:00                                     ` Paul Edwards
2009-10-02 12:41                                     ` Paul Edwards
2009-10-02 16:00                                       ` Ian Lance Taylor
2009-10-02 22:53                                         ` Paul Edwards
2009-10-04  4:11                                           ` Ian Lance Taylor
2009-10-04  5:14                                             ` Paul Edwards
2009-10-04  6:04                                               ` Ian Lance Taylor
2009-10-04  6:50                                                 ` Paul Edwards
2009-10-04 15:38                                                   ` Ulrich Weigand
2009-10-04 22:51                                                     ` Paul Edwards
2009-10-05 13:15                                                       ` Ulrich Weigand
2009-10-06  9:32                                                         ` Paul Edwards
2009-10-06 13:15                                                           ` Ulrich Weigand
2009-10-06 13:38                                                             ` Paul Edwards
2009-10-06 14:01                                                               ` Ulrich Weigand
2009-10-14 14:33                                                                 ` Paul Edwards
2009-10-19 14:19                                                         ` Paul Edwards
2009-10-19 17:37                                                           ` Ulrich Weigand
2009-10-20 14:18                                                             ` Paul Edwards
2009-10-20 15:30                                                               ` Ulrich Weigand
2009-11-12 14:03                                                             ` Paul Edwards
2009-11-12 20:06                                                               ` Ralf Wildenhues
2009-11-12 20:56                                                                 ` Paul Edwards
2009-11-13 11:43                                                                 ` Paul Edwards
2009-11-13 12:01                                                                   ` Ulrich Weigand
2009-11-13 12:18                                                                     ` Paul Edwards
2009-11-13 12:57                                                                       ` Ulrich Weigand
2009-11-14  8:52                                                                         ` Paul Edwards
2009-11-14 10:49                                                                           ` Ralf Wildenhues
2009-11-14 11:28                                                                             ` Paul Edwards
2009-11-22  0:51                                                                               ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-11-18 10:51                                                                             ` Paul Edwards
2009-11-19 14:27                                                                               ` Ulrich Weigand
2009-11-21 13:40                                                                                 ` Paul Edwards
2009-11-23 10:33                                                                                 ` i370 port - 3.4.6 to 4.4 upgrade attempt Paul Edwards
2009-11-23 10:43                                                                                   ` Andreas Schwab
2009-11-23 15:43                                                                                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-11-24 14:05                                                                                   ` Ulrich Weigand
2009-11-24 14:36                                                                                     ` Paul Edwards
2009-11-28 15:14                                                                                     ` i370 port - music/sp - possible generic gcc problem Paul Edwards
2009-11-28 16:03                                                                                       ` Richard Guenther
2009-11-28 16:35                                                                                         ` Paul Edwards [this message]
2009-11-28 17:03                                                                                           ` Richard Guenther
2009-11-28 23:44                                                                                             ` Paul Edwards
2010-05-26 14:40                                                                                         ` i370 port - status Paul Edwards
2021-03-14  5:55                                                                                         ` negative indexes Paul Edwards
2021-03-14  8:05                                                                                           ` Richard Biener
2021-03-14  8:12                                                                                             ` Paul Edwards
2021-03-14 13:37                                                                                               ` Richard Biener
     [not found]                                                                                                 ` <755065BE2A0B4B508DD3A262B2A83801@DESKTOP0OKG1VA>
2021-03-15  9:22                                                                                                   ` Richard Biener
2021-03-15 13:55                                                                                                     ` extended segments on 80386 Paul Edwards
2009-12-07 12:05                                                                                     ` i370 port - 3.4.6 to 4.4 upgrade attempt Paul Edwards
2009-12-08 13:55                                                                                       ` Ulrich Weigand
2009-11-15 14:22                                                                         ` i370 port - finally building Paul Edwards
2009-11-22  0:46                                                                   ` i370 port - constructing compile script Paolo Bonzini
2009-11-13 12:08                                                               ` Ulrich Weigand
2009-10-05 13:17                                                   ` Michael Matz
2009-10-05 13:38                                                     ` Paul Edwards
2009-10-05 13:46                                                       ` Michael Matz
2009-10-01 14:28                             ` Paul Brook
2009-10-01 16:00                               ` Paul Edwards
2009-10-01 18:36                                 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2009-10-01 23:43                                   ` Paul Edwards
2009-10-01 21:10                                 ` David Edelsohn
2009-10-01 22:22                                   ` Toon Moene
2009-10-02  0:19                                     ` Paul Edwards
2009-11-04  5:21                       ` i370 port Paul Edwards
2009-11-04 16:47                         ` Ulrich Weigand
2009-11-09 14:55                           ` Paul Edwards
2009-11-09 15:57                             ` Ian Lance Taylor
2009-11-09 23:10                               ` Paul Edwards
2009-11-10 14:58                               ` Paul Edwards
2009-11-10 15:36                                 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2009-11-10 15:51                               ` Paul Edwards
2009-11-10 15:56                                 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2009-12-02 22:03                                   ` Paul Edwards
2011-08-13  8:34                           ` Paul Edwards
2011-08-15 14:32                             ` Ulrich Weigand
2011-08-15 15:26                               ` Paul Edwards
2011-08-15 17:23                                 ` Ulrich Weigand
2011-08-16 11:20                                   ` Paul Edwards
2011-08-16 13:26                                     ` Ulrich Weigand
2011-08-18 12:15                                       ` Paul Edwards
2011-08-18 13:14                                         ` Ulrich Weigand
2011-08-18 14:18                                           ` Paul Edwards
2009-11-29  7:57 i370 port - music/sp - possible generic gcc problem Paul Edwards
2009-11-29 14:31 Paul Edwards

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