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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
Organization: INTI
To: Chirayu Krishnappa <chirayu AT radiolink DOT net>,
        Robert DOT Hoehne AT Mathematik DOT TU-Chemnitz DOT DE
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 16:21:46 +0000
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Subject: Re: mem alloc taking up power of 2
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Chirayu Krishnappa <chirayu AT radiolink DOT net> wrote:
> >But that's NOT correct. malloc() returns also the power of two aligned
> >block to the user.
> 
> Now that is sheer wasting of memory. I think its a very bad idea to have
> implememnted it this way (the malloc()). Do the other compilers (watcom,
> visual c++, symantec etc) do the same?
> 
> I'm concerned.
> 
> Please clarify.
Borland malloc doesn't make it but is SLOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW 
if you compare it with the djgpp version.

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