On Mar 14, 2015, at 6:58 AM, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot....@gmail.com> wrote: > On March 14, 2015 2:02:38 PM GMT+01:00, Alan Modra <amo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'll also throw together a testcase or three. For execute tests I'm >> thinking of using sbrk to locate an odd sized struct such that access >> past the end segfaults, rather than mmap/munmap as was done in the >> pr36043 testcase. Does that sound reasonable? > > Well since sbrk was marked LEGACY in SUSv2 and was removed in SUSv3 (and > still is in 1003.1-2008) I'm not sure it is wise to use it in new code.. > Using it will bite testing on legacy-free setups, fwiw.
newlib doesn’t have mmap. Indeed, some machines will never have mmap. newlib has sbrk.
