Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 17:56:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: imp@village.org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Realloc fix for review Message-ID: <199808212256.RAA00600@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: <199808210310.VAA26683@harmony.village.org> (message from Warner Losh on Thu, 20 Aug 1998 21:10:46 -0600) References: <199808202326.SAA07936@detlev.UUCP> <199808201619.KAA20970@harmony.village.org> <xzplnoj8uq9.fsf@skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no> <199808210310.VAA26683@harmony.village.org>
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>> Not to mention that on a large number of programs, memory shortage is >> fatal so the block will be free'd soon anyway. > Our libc should not force this memory shortage policy on all programs, > even if most of them will exit soon in the short on memory case. The message was that OpenBSD went through their entire source tree. libc is small compared to the number of executables that use realloc. Best, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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