This is a shot in the dark:
Maybe this failure in 'make dep' has something to do with the
following code in mkdep.c, which mmaps several bytes, and maybe
a page, *beyond* the end of the file:
mapsize = st.st_size + 2*sizeof(unsigned long);
mapsize = (mapsize+pagesizem1) & ~pagesizem1;
map = mmap(NULL, mapsize, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);
This enables the character-reading state machine to run with
a very fast inner loop, but I don't know if mapping beyond the
end of the file -- perhaps even into a new page -- is valid.
Again, just a shot in the dark.
Michael Chastain
<mailto:mec@shout.net>
"love without fear"
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