Broken autoconf mmap test (was Re: 1.7] BUG - GREP slows to a crawl with large number of matches on a single file)

Sun Nov 8 15:05:00 GMT 2009

On Nov 8 14:56, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Btw., the check for mmap in grep's configure file is broken. It tries
> to mmap to a fixed address formerly allocated via malloc(). This doesn't
> work on Windows. An autoconf run with a newer version of autoconf would
> be nice.

I just found that the latest autoconf *still* has this broken test
for mmap, which basically calls
 data2 = malloc (size);
 mmap(data2, ...);
Why has this test never been fixed? Chuck?
Corinna
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