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Date:      Fri, 27 Sep 1996 18:55:25 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        peter@spinner.DIALix.COM, phk@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-lib@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdlib atexit.c src/lib/libc/sys brk.2 
Message-ID:  <2090.843843325@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 28 Sep 1996 02:48:04 %2B1000." <199609271648.CAA30883@godzilla.zeta.org.au> 

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In message <199609271648.CAA30883@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes:
>>>   Modified:    lib/libc/stdlib  atexit.c
>>>                lib/libc/sys  brk.2
>>>   Log:
>>>   Don't use malloc, pessimize to use sbrk.
>>>   fix sbrk manpage while we're at it.
>>
>>Umm, you can't do this!  If you use sbrk(), you are preventing the future 
>>use of malloc(), as you *cannot* intermix the use of sbrk() and malloc() 
>>in the same program!
>
>The author of malloc can intermix them :-).  Are there problems with old
>versions?
actually I know of only one version that would be troubled by this,
even the "canonical" example in the old testament can cope with it...


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