To:	Jamie Lokier <egcs AT tantalophile DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
cc:	Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>, gcc AT gcc DOT gnu DOT org,
	DJGPP Workers <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Perfomance of gc-simple
In-reply-to:	Your message of Sat, 06 May 2000 19:24:33 +0200.
	<20000506192433 DOT B22700 AT pcep-jamie DOT cern DOT ch>
Date:	Mon, 08 May 2000 09:43:26 -0600
Message-ID:	<831.957800606@upchuck>
From:	Jeffrey A Law <law AT cygnus DOT com>
Reply-To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

  In message <20000506192433 DOT B22700 AT pcep-jamie DOT cern DOT ch>you write:
  >        With the GNU library, you can use `free' to free the blocks that
  >     `memalign' and `valloc' return.  That does not work in BSD,
  >     however--BSD does not provide any way to free such blocks.
  > 
  > I guess this is easily forgiven because all the BSD systems provide mmap()
  > anyway.  But all Glibc systems do too, don't they? :-)
Actually, older BSD systems (4.3 era) don't provide a usable
mmap implementation.

jeff

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