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Date:      Sun, 25 Feb 2001 21:02:06 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.
Message-ID:  <3A98F43E.FFC99867@newsguy.com>
References:  <200102242037.f1OKbd618343@guild.plethora.net> <xzp7l2f7qy2.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> 
> > > None of these solutions are portable, however;
> > Well, no, but the sole available definition of "portable" says that it is
> > "portable" to assume that all the memory malloc can return is really
> > available.
> 
> Show me a modern OS (excluding real-time and/or embedded OSes) that
> makes this guarantee.

Solaris and AIX (on AIX this is optional on a global or per-application
level).

-- 
Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
dcs@newsguy.com
dcs@freebsd.org
capo@kzinti.bsdconspiracy.net

	Acabou o hipismo-arte. Mas a desculpa brasileira mais ouvida em Sydney
e' que nao tem mais cavalo bobo por ai'.

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