Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 14:22:44 -0500 (CDT) From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, roberto@keltia.Freenix.FR Subject: Re: XFree86 and the new malloc Message-ID: <9509211922.AA21896@olympus> In-Reply-To: <199509210528.PAA29710@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Sep 21, 95 03:28:36 pm
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> > >Has anyone tried to link the X server with the new libc's malloc from > >Poul-Henning ? > > It's already linked to libc's malloc unless you have a version that is > linked to a nonstandard libmalloc. This is one of the main advantages > (?) of not putting phkmalloc in a special library that almost no one > will use. It also shows why third party programs should not use > nonstandard libraries to avoid problems in standard libaries. > > Bruce > But I am glad XFree did. Andrew's ez would not work with XFree86 3.1 which was linked with libc's malloc while it did with R5 and R6 3.1.2 linked with gnumalloc. Of course, had it worked, I wouldn't have cared. Boyd -- _______________________________________________________________________ Boyd Faulkner - faulkner@isd.tandem.com - http://cactus.org/~faulkner _______________________________________________________________________
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