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static void
decide_maybe_mmap (_IO_FILE *fp)
{
/* We use the file in read-only mode. This could mean we can
mmap the file and use it without any copying. But not all
file descriptors are for mmap-able objects and on 32-bit
machines we don't want to map files which are too large since
this would require too much virtual memory. */
struct _G_stat64 st;
if (_IO_SYSSTAT (fp, &st) == 0
&& S_ISREG (st.st_mode) && st.st_size != 0
/* Limit the file size to 1MB for 32-bit machines. */
&& (sizeof (ptrdiff_t) > 4 || st.st_size < 1*1024*1024)
/* Sanity check. */
&& (fp->_offset == _IO_pos_BAD || fp->_offset <= st.st_size))
{
/* Try to map the file. */
void *p;
# ifdef _G_MMAP64
p = _G_MMAP64 (NULL, st.st_size, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fp->_fileno, 0);
# else
p = __mmap (NULL, st.st_size, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fp->_fileno, 0);
# endif
if (p != MAP_FAILED)
{
/* OK, we managed to map the file. Set the buffer up and use a
special jump table with simplified underflow functions which
never tries to read anything from the file. */
if (
# ifdef _G_LSEEK64
_G_LSEEK64
# else
__lseek
# endif
(fp->_fileno, st.st_size, SEEK_SET) != st.st_size)
{
(void) __munmap (p, st.st_size);
fp->_offset = _IO_pos_BAD;
}
else
{
_IO_setb (fp, p, (char *) p + st.st_size, 0);
if (fp->_offset == _IO_pos_BAD)
fp->_offset = 0;
_IO_setg (fp, p, p + fp->_offset, p + st.st_size);
fp->_offset = st.st_size;
if (fp->_mode <= 0)
_IO_JUMPS ((struct _IO_FILE_plus *)fp) = &_IO_file_jumps_mmap;
else
_IO_JUMPS ((struct _IO_FILE_plus *)fp) = &_IO_wfile_jumps_mmap;
fp->_wide_data->_wide_vtable = &_IO_wfile_jumps_mmap;
return;
}
}
}
/* We couldn't use mmap, so revert to the vanilla file operations. */
if (fp->_mode <= 0)
_IO_JUMPS ((struct _IO_FILE_plus *) fp) = &_IO_file_jumps;
else
_IO_JUMPS ((struct _IO_FILE_plus *) fp) = &_IO_wfile_jumps;
fp->_wide_data->_wide_vtable = &_IO_wfile_jumps;
}
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