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10.648 mmap

POSIX specification:
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/mmap.html

Gnulib module: —

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:

• On platforms where off_t is a 32-bit type, this function may not work correctly across the entire data range of files 2 GiB and larger. See Large File Support.

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:

• This function is missing on some platforms: mingw, MSVC 14.
• To get anonymous memory, on some platforms, you can use the flags MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE and -1 instead of a file descriptor; on others you have to use a read-only file descriptor of /dev/zero.
• On HP-UX, passing a non-NULL first argument, as a hint for the address (even without MAP_FIXED), often causes mmap to fail. Better pass NULL in this case.
• On HP-UX, MAP_FIXED basically never works. On other platforms, it depends on the circumstances whether memory can be returned at a given address.