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Re: Memory-mapped files
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Niels Möller |
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Re: Memory-mapped files |
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12 Nov 2002 13:56:26 +0100 |
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"Ludovic Courtès" <ludovic.courtes@utbm.fr> writes:
> Although the GNU Coding Standards specify that user applications shouldn't
> rely on mmap() to read files, it turns out that gcc sometimes relies on it
> (depending on the source file size I think). Should we ask the gcc team to
> change that? ;)
gcc ought to fall back to plain read for any file on which mmap fails.
Just as described in the GNU Coding Standard.
/Niels