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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: BLOAT in minimal programs 
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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In message <199609271049.UAA20273@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes:

>atexit() could use sbrk() instead of malloc().  This would work fairly
>well since atexit() rarely needs to expands its default of 32 pointers
>(even 32 is wasteful) and never frees its memory.

good idea.

malloc is safe from this usage.

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