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From: "Laurynas Biveinis" <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 21:34:07 +0200
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Subject: Re: Interest in Smalltalk and/or Python?
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On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 05:11:07PM +0100, Tim Van Holder wrote:
> Annoyance! As it turns out, the latest smalltalk package requires mmap(),
> so it won't work out-of-the-box on DJGPP at all (and since I don't think
> many MSDOS environments have mmap(), also renders the MSDOS support it
> has useless).
> I'll check if there's a way to excise the mmap()-related code (smalltalk
> 1.7 didn't use it, so it might be possible); if not, I think we may be
> screwed(tm) - until we have mmap() too, that is.

I didn't see the code, but I guess that simple fallback to malloc()
will work, if it is mmap(MAP_ANONYMOUS), or mmap("/dev/zero").

Laurynas