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Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 20:45:15 +0100
From: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc: ru@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/28371: malloc(2) man page correction
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> Well, I'm not sure I agree in the fix.  The string is not by
> definition a constant, you could assign it in your code, depending
> on circumstances found only after starting to run (for instance
> setting "AJ" when running with a debugging command line switch).

But 'extern const char *malloc_options' doesn't prevent that - it makes
what malloc_options points to constant, not the malloc_options variable
itself.  So 'malloc_options = "AJ"' would still be legal, or did I
misunderstand something?

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Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org

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