Re: [PATCH, RFD]: Unbreak no-mmu mmap

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On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:53:49PM +0200, Bernd Schmidt wrote:
> 2. It is no longer possible to get blocks smaller than a page through
>    mmap.  This behaviour was used by simplemalloc, which is an insane
>    way of implementing malloc on nommu systems and hopefully not used
>    by anyone anymore.

That's worrisome. Breaking existing apps/libraries seems like a bad
idea.

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Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
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