GNU bug report logs - #24892
{s,}brk removed from FreeBSD 11.x and later, arm64 architecture

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: ashish.is <at> lostca.se (Ashish SHUKLA)

Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 06:09:02 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: fixed, patch

Merged with 28308

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #50 received at 24892 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
Cc: 24892 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Ashish SHUKLA <ashish.is <at> lostca.se>
Subject: Re: bug#24892: {s, }brk removed from FreeBSD 11.x and later, arm64
 architecture
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 09:52:06 -0800

On 11/09/2016 01:46 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> If so, what is the difference in value there between sbrk (0) and ((byte
>> >*) old_bss_addr + old_bss_size), in the region of unexelf.c that computes
>> >one or the other?
> The former includes the heap.

Yes, and I'm curious about what the difference actually is, so that we 
can figure out how to compute it ourselves now that sbrk has been 
withdrawn. On FreeBSD 11.0 x86-64 (which still has sbrk) the difference 
is 0 for Emacs master, but on AMD apparently the value is something 
other than 0.
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