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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!olivea!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!qwerty!bs From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: [386BSD] time for better malloc? Message-ID: <1f0n68INN97f@Germany.EU.net> Date: 25 Nov 92 20:20:24 GMT References: <1f0i66INNj9o@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> Organization: EUnet Germany Lines: 20 NNTP-Posting-Host: qwerty.germany.eu.net In article <1f0i66INNj9o@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, ljo@murphy.eeap.cwru.edu (L. Jonas Olsson) writes: |> I don't know if FSF's malloc is the best to switch to, but the original does |> not seem to be suitable for this kind of data allocation. I also have not |> tried to compile all of the system with a new malloc. Hmmm I don't think that's a good idea. There's all sorts of highly specialized applications that do all sorts of horrible things and they may all want a different malloc() strategy. The question IMHO is whether the version in question *works*. Ther seem to be malloc versions around that aren't doing the correct thing... -Bernard -- Bernard Steiner, FB Informatik/IRB, Uni Dortmund, vox +49 231 755 2444 Postfach 500500, D-W-4600 Dortmund 50, Germany fax +49 231 755 2386 bs@Germany.EU.net ...!uunet!unido!bs *III And they gave it Instructions, but knew it not. } From The Book of Nome, *IV It is, they said, a Box with a Funny Voice. } Mezzanine v.III-IV