Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 08:52:03 -0600 From: "Eric L. Hernes" <erich@lodgenet.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> Cc: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new malloc/libc... Message-ID: <199603131452.IAA01215@jake.lodgenet.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Mar 1996 12:34:51 GMT." <22076.826720491@critter.tfs.com>
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A week or so ago I spoke with the guys at Xinside, they were holding their release of Motif because of a memory leak with malloc, the code ran fine with BSDi and Linux, but had a leak with FreeBSD. Is this phkmalloc or the original malloc which apparently is in 2.1 I thought phkmalloc was mainstream months ago, but maybe not. eric. Poul-Henning Kamp writes: >> There was a spattering of discussion about the new malloc existing in >> -current, I seem to have lost track of it in the noise; did anybody >> followup on the suggestion of putting a compiled libc on the ftp site? >> Or are we limited to simply compiling it ourselves? > >I will probably make another stab at convincing the gang that "phkmalloc" >should be put in 2.1, but last time I tried there were some concerns about >all the broken code it exposed :-) > >-- >Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. >http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. >whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc >. >Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so. > -- erich@lodgenet.com erich@rrnet.com
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