Linux, NetBSD and Solaris have a mremap system call that allows to opportunistically grow or relocate the existing memory mapping. There also seems to be a way to achieve this on Windows, but I'm not familiar with that API.
Please, add support for this functionality (specifically, growing and/or relocating a memory mapping) to the mapped_region class. For example, add a grow_by method that would try to increase the size of the mapped region at the same address and remap to relocate the region at a different address and size. On platforms that don't support this functionality, the new methods would always fail. This would also be indicated at compile time by some library-defined config macro.
Linux, NetBSD and Solaris have a
mremapsystem call that allows to opportunistically grow or relocate the existing memory mapping. There also seems to be a way to achieve this on Windows, but I'm not familiar with that API.Please, add support for this functionality (specifically, growing and/or relocating a memory mapping) to the
mapped_regionclass. For example, add agrow_bymethod that would try to increase the size of the mapped region at the same address andremapto relocate the region at a different address and size. On platforms that don't support this functionality, the new methods would always fail. This would also be indicated at compile time by some library-defined config macro.