[MPlayer-dev-eng] man_anonymous

D Richard Felker III dalias at aerifal.cx
Mon Mar 7 16:25:45 CET 2005


On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 11:55:15AM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Hi,
> > Isn't adding a bunch of ifdefs into all code that uses mmap a lot more
> > intrusive than a configure test that just puts the code, when necessary, into
> > config.h?  Isn't that the point of config.h?
> 
> Well, it makes configure larger (which is already a really big monster)
> and unfortunately some code uses MAP_ANON and some use MAP_ANONYMOUS, so
> we would actually need two configure checks at the moment :-(

Please remove both and put (void*)-1 wherever it's needed. This is
(always) the value of both constants and it eliminates the dependency
on stupid #defines that might be missing.

Rich




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