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Date:	Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:37:03 -0400
From:	CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: 2.04 release
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Richard Dawe wrote:
> CBFalconer wrote:
> [snip]
>> I wish it would go out including my nmalloc.  Although I never got
>> the memalign stuff into it, I am quite proud of the package and the
>> built in debugging capability.  I believe someone was running it
>> for some time, and found no problems.  The only reason, I believe,
>> for the memalign stuff was to work with gcc, and that seems to
>> already be problematical.  I don't think it is smart to have gcc
>> dependant on such non-standard things.
> 
> I tried to integrate nmalloc into DJGPP 2.04, but I had some issues.
> See my mail dated 11/12/03 20:04 entitled "Re: nmalloc and memalign".
> I couldn't find any mail about any nmalloc updates since then, but I
> didn't look particularly hard. These issues may be solved.
> 
> Given the limited resources, perhaps DJGPP 2.04 should be released
> as-is? That may spur Someone(TM) to help fix the bugs in the 2.04
> release.
> 
> If someone wants to take over the 2.04 status page
> <http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~phekda/richdawe/djgpp/2.04/>, let me
> know. I will install pages to automatically forward people to the new
> status page.

As I said above, the memalign was never claimed to work, and has
nothing to do with standard usage.  In fact that portion of the
source was specifically labelled as experimental and disposable,
emphasis on disposable.  I believe everything else to be bug free.

I spent a good deal of time on that when I was in better health,
and I hate to see it just all go to waste.

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