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Date:      Fri, 22 Sep 1995 08:48:33 -0500
From:      Rich Murphey <rich@lamprey.utmb.edu>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, roberto@keltia.Freenix.FR
Subject:   Re: XFree86 and the new malloc
Message-ID:  <199509221348.IAA04468@id.slip.bcm.tmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199509210528.PAA29710@godzilla.zeta.org.au> (message from Bruce Evans on Thu, 21 Sep 1995 15:28:36 %2B1000)

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|From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
|
|>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.

Hey, wait a sec.  XFree86 3.1.2 does use -lgnumalloc.  We
had been testing it but only switched when it passed all the
alpha/beta tests, and that happened after 3.0 came out.
Rich




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