Windows sucks
Henry Cejtin
henry@clairv.com
Mon, 5 Jun 2000 13:49:57 -0500
I suspect that it is NOT a bug in the code, but a failure in mapping it to
the evil Windows world. Note, it is completely legal to mmap a chunk of
memory from A to B and to then unmap from C to B where C is strictly greater
than A (but less than B). Thus, converting mmap to malloc and munmap to free
is NOT correct.
The call to smunmap in maybeShrinkStack (in gc.c) should be changed from
smunmap(s->stackBottom + keep, s->stackSize - keep)
to a realloc call, like
realloc(s->stackBottom, keep)
but if the result isn't equal to s->stakBottom (which IS leagal for realloc)
then things have moved and you are dead. Also there are other smunmap calls
which seem to be doing the same thing. I don't see an easy work around.