From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 25 4: 5:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03B3637B491 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 04:05:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p36-dn01kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.37]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id VAA15192; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 21:04:56 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3A98F43E.FFC99867@newsguy.com> Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 21:02:06 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Peter Seebach , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions. References: <200102242037.f1OKbd618343@guild.plethora.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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'. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message