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From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: new malloc/libc... 
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On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> Sigh..  I still can't get a straight story on this one, and am
> beginning to give up all hope of ever seeing Motif from X Inside.
> I've sent phkmalloc to several people there, but they've never
> clarified for me whether or not it had any effect.
> 
> 					Jordan

You can also remind them that gnumalloc comes with FreeBSD 2.1.0, and 
should have the same characteristics as Linux's malloc.  Most X programs 
that use Imakefiles are linked with -lgnumalloc anyway now..

	---Jake