Bug#247300: libc6: malloc() never fails on 2.4 kernels, making processes crash

2004-05-09 Thread Steven Augart
cond of those appears impractical, for the reasons I argue above. Regards, Wolfram. Cordially yours, --Steve -- Steven Augart Jikes RVM, a free, open source, Virtual Machine: http://oss.software.ibm.com/jikesrvm

Bug#247300: libc6: malloc() never fails on 2.4 kernels, making processes crash

2004-05-06 Thread Steven Augart
rief for other developers to have it clearly spelled out that glibc's malloc() uses the MAP_NORESERVE flag when allocating memory. It would tell people what to look for when reading the kernel documentation referred to. --Steve Augart -- Steven Augart Jikes RVM, a free, o

Bug#247300: libc6: malloc() never fails on 2.4 kernels, making processes crash

2004-05-06 Thread Steven Augart
rief for other developers to have it clearly spelled out that glibc's malloc() uses the MAP_NORESERVE flag when allocating memory. It would tell people what to look for when reading the kernel documentation referred to. --Steve Augart -- Steven Augart Jikes RVM, a free, o

Re: GS register to access thread-specific state on x86

2004-05-05 Thread Steven Augart
have to pull down the Sun Java runtime environment from non-free in order to use the programs they want to use. Thank you for your consideration. Respectfully Yours, --Steven Augart [1] Visit http://www-124.ibm.com/jikesrvm/userguide/HTML/faq_building.html and search for the

Re: GS register to access thread-specific state on x86

2004-05-05 Thread Steven Augart
have to pull down the Sun Java runtime environment from non-free in order to use the programs they want to use. Thank you for your consideration. Respectfully Yours, --Steven Augart [1] Visit http://www-124.ibm.com/jikesrvm/userguide/HTML/faq_building.html and search for the

GS register to access thread-specific state on x86

2004-05-05 Thread Steven Augart
ages have managed to manipulate the stack pointer and still take advantage of the pthreads support in Debian's glibc. At the moment, the Jikes RVM user's guide recommends that folks run Red Hat or SuSE. I would very much like to add Debian to the list of recommended systems. Thank You. --

GS register to access thread-specific state on x86

2004-05-05 Thread Steven Augart
ages have managed to manipulate the stack pointer and still take advantage of the pthreads support in Debian's glibc. At the moment, the Jikes RVM user's guide recommends that folks run Red Hat or SuSE. I would very much like to add Debian to the list of recommended systems. Thank You. --