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Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 14:40:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: bin/43810: 'echo' is too big
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<<On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 01:00:02 -0700 (PDT), Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> said:

>  "main() {}" now uses malloc() because atexit() uses it unconditionally and
>  crt1 uses atexit() unconditionally (to do nothing for "main() {}").

Given the limitations of the atexit() interface in the first place, I
see no particular reason why atexit() should provide for dynamic
allocation.  If it were really important (hah!) we could play
weak-symbol games.

-GAWollman


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