Date: Mon, 7 Aug 1995 15:35:09 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu> Cc: jdli@csie.nctu.edu.tw, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: XFree86-3.1.2 & gnumalloc Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950807153325.192A-100000@aries> In-Reply-To: <199508070448.VAA05206@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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On Sun, 6 Aug 1995, Satoshi Asami wrote:
>
> I used to have core dumps when I C-A-F1'd out of a 16bpp S3 server
> (3.1.1u2 + gnumalloc) while running xsnow, but the 3.1.2 XF86_S3
> doesn't do that to me anymore. :)
I noticed the local XF86 mirror site still hasn't picked up 3.1.2
yet, so I continue to wait. :(
> Well, gnumalloc in XF86_* can only help you for XF86_*. ;) But xv, if
> you picked up a recent version from ports, will use gnumalloc (check
> out patch-ad). And for netscape, well that's statically linked,
> nothing we can do about it.
Whoops, I wasn't clean in my previous post. I have recompiled xv
to use gnumalloc as well, and was thus commenting on the increased
memory usage efficiency of xv vs. the unmodified (unmodifiable!)
Netscape binary.
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org
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