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Date:      Wed, 13 Mar 1996 16:33:51 +0000
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        "Eric L. Hernes" <erich@lodgenet.com>
Cc:        Brandon Gillespie <brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: new malloc/libc... 
Message-ID:  <22360.826734831@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Mar 1996 08:52:03 CST." <199603131452.IAA01215@jake.lodgenet.com> 

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> 
> 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.

The malloc in 2.1 doesn't do >anything< to conserve memory, a fact than
can easily be confused with a memory leak.

phkmalloc is >not< in 2.1.

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