AllocateHeapAt disabling on AIX
Aleksey Shipilev
shade at redhat.com
Wed Sep 26 16:13:00 UTC 2018
On 09/26/2018 06:09 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> On 26/09/2018 12:02 PM, Baesken, Matthias wrote:
>> Hi David, I would like to print something like "AllocateHeapAt not supported on AIX" .
>> And then exit (probably just ignoring the flag and printing the message might be bad ).
>>
>> The constraint functions were suggested to me as an option but it looks to me they are
>> Intended for other use cases .
>
> Yes, I think a check in argument.cpp would be better.
There is already a similar block there at L3848:
#if defined(_ALLBSD_SOURCE) || defined(AIX) // UseLargePages is not yet supported on BSD and AIX.
UNSUPPORTED_OPTION(UseLargePages);
#endif
...I think you can add the AllocateHeapAt check nearby, Matthias.
-Aleksey
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