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Date:      Tue, 19 Mar 1996 06:39:57 +0000
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CFV: adding phk_malloc to -stable 
Message-ID:  <1695.827217597@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 18 Mar 1996 23:48:01 %2B0200." <Pine.BSF.3.91.960318233232.5604B-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> 

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> So why not put there a separate brach, which would contain everything 
> else standard but just the malloc replaced together with a warning sign? 
> Or just put it among the other files and make it a command line switch 
> for the Makefile? That everybody could get what they want - either real 
> stability with bad memory allocation or stability with "not so stable 
> malloc" + good memory allocation. (What happens if I allocate 1,000,000 
> structs containing a long and a pointer?)

Hrm, Hrm, I'd like to point out that phkmalloc is perfectly fine, and that
no problems have been filed against it for the last N months.

The problem is that >other programs< foul up their nest when using malloc.
phkmalloc detects this and complains...

Yes, we >may< indeed consider shipping an replacement libc.

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