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Message-ID: <20140329170032.GJ8221@example.net> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 17:00:32 +0000 From: u-igbb@...ey.se To: musl@...ts.openwall.com Subject: malloc not behaving well when brk space is limited? Hello, Background: Compiling a native musl-based toolchain for ia32 on Linux 2.6+. Using the standalone dynamic loader mode. (The latter seems to lead to a quite limited heap space, by kernel behaviour/design) I encounter out of memory errors. A look at the malloc source does not find any fallback to mmap when heap is exhausted. What would you suggest as a suitable approach to make it work? Somebody has possibly already encountered and solved this with musl? I see also reports about a related out of memory problem with pae-executables which means a solution might help many musl users. The other standard libraries I am using (glibc, uclibc) seem to happily switch to allocation from mmap() when the heap is full. I understand that this costs some code and performance but a breakup is no good either. Any ideas? Maintaining and using an external libmalloc or substituting malloc in musl? This feels like quite a burden... (Would musl internal calls to malloc notice the external library and resolve to its entry points instead of the internal malloc?) Rune
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