On Wednesday 29 March 2006 14:58, Matthias Scheler wrote: > On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 11:09:00AM +0200, Dejan Lesjak wrote: > > XFree86 loader seems to have a problem with new malloc on FreeBSD/amd64 > > (7.0-current). > > The last time I looked the XFree86 loader couldn't handle addresses over > 4GB properly. NetBSD-amd64 therefore uses mmap() to allocate memory in > the first 4GB for loading modules inside the X11 server. > > Is the difference between the new and the old malloc() in FreeBSD perhaps > that it now returns address above 4GB? I asked Jason Evans who implemented the new malloc and indeed this is the case. I'll see what was done in NetBSD to make loader work. Thanks! Dejan _______________________________________________ Devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
