From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 17 22:51:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA00689 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 22:51:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA00684 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 22:51:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id RAA01974; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 17:21:05 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199702180651.RAA01974@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: CTC Linux Mandate In-Reply-To: <199702180520.VAA00774@lightside.com> from Jake Hamby at "Feb 17, 97 09:20:20 pm" To: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 17:21:04 +1030 (CST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jake Hamby stands accused of saying: > > > > The only thing to remember when compiling Squid (and many othe programs > > too) is to include "-lgnumalloc" as the standard malloc is the old > > BSD/Caltech one... > > Not if you're using FreeBSD 2.2 or higher. It has PHK's improved malloc > built into libc, which is just as good as gnumalloc. In fact, in these > versions of FreeBSD, gnumalloc is actually a stub library for backwards > compatibility, and linking with it won't do anything useful. "Just as good as"? If Poul wasn't up burping his baby he'd be rolling in his grave! pkhmalloc eats the GNU malloc for breakfast, because it gets along with the VM system. Despite the comment in the manpage, even : HISTORY The present implementation of malloc started out as a filesystem on a drum attached to a 20bit binary challenged computer built with discrete germanium transistors, and it has since graduated to handle primary stor- age rather than secondary. > -- Jake -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[