[Python-Dev] problem with pymalloc on the BeOS port. (original) (raw)

François Revol revol at free.fr
Tue Aug 24 14:37:47 CEST 2004


Tim Peters wrote:

>>Any clue ? > > > Try gcc without -O. Nobody has reported anything like this before > -- > you're in for a lot of fun . In addition, try to find out whether BeOS' malloc is somehow "strange". It's plain GNU malloc (with some locking for multithreading I think) libroot is actually a glibc +libm with some goodies. Though the glibc is getting quite old.

Does the system have the notion of a linear address space? Does it do pages? and so on. If you find a feature that you wouldn't expect in Windows NT, Linux, or HP-UX (*), that might give a clue. Sure, BeOS is a modern OS, mind you :D And it has a fairly complete (complete enough) POSIX subsystem. The only thing that I miss sometimes is mmap() but most of the time it can be worked around easily with areas.

François.



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