Re: [Help-smalltalk] Bus error while building GST 3.2 on SPARC Linux

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 07/27/2010 01:43 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Paolo, is gst mmaping files, and the signal occurring when you are accessing
> an area that is beyond the length of the file? Or does gst only use mmap of
> anonymous memory?

It is mmaping files, but the particular spot where the SIGBUS is 
happening means that the area was anonymously mapped.  The mmaped file 
includes object data which is not movable and is not reused when an 
object inside there dies.  Instead oldspace is an anonymous mmap and it 
is a full-blown memory heap with malloc (_gst_mem_alloc) and free 
(_gst_mem_free).

> > What do you think about unconditionally registering an handler for both
> > SIGSEGV and SIGBUS, basically dropping signals-*.h?
>
> I'm not a fan of catching unrelated signals.

I agree, but it seems necessary (at least on SPARC/Linux).  Let's wait 
for Gabriel's experiment.

Paolo