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Gordon DOT Schumacher AT seagate DOT com wrote:
> "CBFalconer" <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com> wrote
> 
>> Glad to hear it.  Please look closely at the problems with the
>> existing malloc package, and my replacement nmalloc.  One of the
>> problems is exposed by the evilalgo.c test.
> 
> I'll take a look - should I reference this list or DJ-Workers for
> reference on this?
> 
>> My health prevents me from doing anything major at this point.  But
>> if things get moving I shall try to attack the memalign
>> (non-standard) problem again.  At one point I understood this was
>> needed to handle the later gcc versions.
> 
> What do you mean by "later"?  I'm currently building my application
> with gcc 4.1.0; perhaps I'm simply not exposing the issue?

I don't know.  I was told that gcc past some point needed to be
able to allocate memory with special alignment requirements, for
i/o efficiency.  At any rate you can pick up the nmalloc system (I
don't know whether it is in the DJGPP sources anywhere or not) at:

  <http://cbfalconer.home.att.net/download/>

Pay no attention to the memalign code within it.  All else is good,
AFAICT.

-- 
Chuck F (cbfalconer at maineline dot net)
   Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems.
   <http://cbfalconer.home.att.net>