Re: XFree86 loader broken on FreeBSD/amd64 current

On Wednesday 29 March 2006 14:58, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 11:09:00AM +0200, Dejan Lesjak wrote:
> > XFree86 loader seems to have a problem with new malloc on FreeBSD/amd64
> > (7.0-current).
>
> The last time I looked the XFree86 loader couldn't handle addresses over
> 4GB properly. NetBSD-amd64 therefore uses mmap() to allocate memory in
> the first 4GB for loading modules inside the X11 server.
>
> Is the difference between the new and the old malloc() in FreeBSD perhaps
> that it now returns address above 4GB?

I asked Jason Evans who implemented the new malloc and indeed this is the 
case. I'll see what was done in NetBSD to make loader work.
Thanks!


Dejan