Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 08:23:04 -0600 From: "Eric L. Hernes" <erich@lodgenet.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new malloc/libc... Message-ID: <199603141423.IAA06343@jake.lodgenet.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Mar 1996 16:33:51 GMT." <22360.826734831@critter.tfs.com>
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Has anyone on the core team talked to Xinside about this? They said that you (core) were working on it. If it's just a matter of -lgnumalloc, or -lphkmalloc (which isn't in 2.1 in any way shape or form right?) then it seems that they could just use a better malloc and release it right? eric. Poul-Henning Kamp writes: >> >> 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. > >The malloc in 2.1 doesn't do >anything< to conserve memory, a fact than >can easily be confused with a memory leak. > >phkmalloc is >not< in 2.1. > >-- >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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