On Jan 14, 2006, at 7:28 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
Jason,
is this related to the malloc changes in any way. I'm curious why the
default return type of `int' wasn't a problem so far. Has the
definition of userland pointers changed recently from a type that
could
fit in an `int' to something larger?
On amd64, jemalloc uses mmap() to get chunks of memory to carve up.
It's possible that these chunks are above 4 GB, which means that the
high bits are important, but sizeof(int) is 4, not large enough to
store such a pointer. With sbrk(), the addresses are rather small,
so the high bits would never be used in that case. This bug would
slip by with most (all?) other allocators, and would also slip by
jemalloc if USE_BRK were defined for amd64 in malloc.c.
Jason
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