From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 13 07:18:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA03277 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 07:18:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from bacall.lodgenet.com ([205.138.147.242]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA03269 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 07:18:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mail@localhost) by bacall.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA15178 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 09:13:08 -0600 Received: from tserv.lodgenet.com(204.124.120.10) by bacall via smap (V1.3) id sma015172; Wed Mar 13 09:12:46 1996 Received: from jake.lodgenet.com (jake.lodgenet.com [204.124.120.30]) by tserv.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id IAA18750; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 08:39:32 -0600 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jake.lodgenet.com (8.7.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA01215; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 08:52:03 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199603131452.IAA01215@jake.lodgenet.com> X-Authentication-Warning: jake.lodgenet.com: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.2 7/18/95 To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: Brandon Gillespie , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new malloc/libc... In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 13 Mar 1996 12:34:51 GMT." <22076.826720491@critter.tfs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 08:52:03 -0600 From: "Eric L. Hernes" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk A week or so ago I spoke with the guys at Xinside, they were holding their release of Motif because of a memory leak with malloc, the code ran fine with BSDi and Linux, but had a leak with FreeBSD. Is this phkmalloc or the original malloc which apparently is in 2.1 I thought phkmalloc was mainstream months ago, but maybe not. eric. Poul-Henning Kamp writes: >> There was a spattering of discussion about the new malloc existing in >> -current, I seem to have lost track of it in the noise; did anybody >> followup on the suggestion of putting a compiled libc on the ftp site? >> Or are we limited to simply compiling it ourselves? > >I will probably make another stab at convincing the gang that "phkmalloc" >should be put in 2.1, but last time I tried there were some concerns about >all the broken code it exposed :-) > >-- >Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. >http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. >whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc >. >Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so. > -- erich@lodgenet.com erich@rrnet.com