From:	"Mark E." <snowball3 AT softhome DOT net>
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Date:	Tue, 17 Jun 2003 19:08:21 -0400
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Subject:	Re: nmalloc integration issues: memalign, names
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> memalign is supported by glibc. So is the function valloc, which uses
> memalign. I'm assuming that they were added to DJGPP for compatibility with

valloc and memalloc were added because at the time g++'s internal garbage 
collector required either valloc or mmap. I also seem to remember that around 
that time valloc or mmap became a requirement for gnu smalltalk.

Mark

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