On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 06:29:07PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> I accidentally did a lot of testing with DYNAMICBASE - I accidentally
> mistranslated MSBuildProject.pm's <RandomizedBaseAddress>false</> to adding
> /DYNAMICBASE in the meson port. Survived several hundred CI cycles and dozens
> of local runs without observing any problems related to that.
>
> Which doesn't surprise me, given the way we reserve space in the new process.
Still, we had problems with that in the past and I don't recall huge
changes in the way we allocate shmem on WIN32. Could there be some
stuff in Windows itself that would explain more stability? I would
not mind switching back to DYNAMICBASE on HEAD seeing your results.
That would simplify this thread's patch a bit as well.
--
Michael
