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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.
>
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>.
>Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.

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