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From: Eric Backus <ericb AT lsid DOT hp DOT com>
Subject: Re: malloc/free broken??
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (djgpp)
Date: Fri, 7 May 93 11:57:43 PDT
Mailer: Elm [revision: 66.25]

> The malloc that djgpp uses is the original BSD freed malloc sources.
> I cannot use the GNU malloc because of the GPL.  The current malloc
> will only reuse a block if |log2(size+4)| is the same.

Well, actually anybody could use GNU malloc.  It would just mean that
the resulting program would be covered by the GPL.  I believe that GNU
malloc is pretty good, so that might be worthwhile for some people.
--
				Eric Backus
				ericb AT lsid DOT hp DOT com
				(206) 335-2495

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