Date:	Wed, 18 Jun 2003 06:44:49 +0300
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Subject:	Re: nmalloc integration issues: memalign, names
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> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 23:10:44 -0400
> From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
> 
> <rant>
> Now take a look at the frustrations from my viewpoint.

Yes, it does take an effort to add something substantial to the DJGPP
library.  We appreciate that effort, believe me.

We now ask you for an additional effort, one that, for you, is much
smaller than the one that went into programming and debugging nmalloc:
that you make it compatible with related library interfaces.  It is
unrealistic to expect from another volunteer to work on code they are
not yet familiar with just because you don't have a sufficiently new
version of the library code and cannot look at that yourself.  It is
also unreasonable to expect us to replace malloc with something that
breaks some of related features.  Each feature we put into DJGPP is
sorely needed somewhere (Mark explained in this thread why memalign
and friends were added: to be able to port latest versions of GCC), so
we cannot afford to stop their support.  We need nmalloc to be
compatible with memalign.

> I have no urge to learn a new system, and install who knows what,
> for each baby step.

You don't need to if you don't want (although, believe this old man,
installing CVS and learning how to use it is a snap).  Someone in this
thread already pointed to a URL where you can find a fairly new
version of a checked-out CVS tree.  I repeat that URL below for your
convenience:

  http://www.ludd.luth.se/~ams/djgpp/cvs/

All you need is point your favorite Web browser at that URL and
download the file djgpp.cvs.tar.gz from there.  It's only 2.2MB, which
should be small enough even for the most slow connection these days.

Please make this additional small effort to allow Richard to put
nmalloc into the next alpha release.

Thanks in advance.

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