Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 10:12:13 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Demmer AT lstm DOT ruhr-uni-bochum DOT de
cc: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: malloc()
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On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Tom Demmer wrote:

> The docs make me think that it hes been used in a wide range of 
> applications and thoroughly tested. It looks as if the author knew 
> what he is doing.

Doug Lea is the author of most of GNU C++ class library (libg++).
Look in the GNU ChangeLogs of other packages, and you will see his
name all over the place.  I have no doubts his code *must* be good.

> Things change when not only malloc but also 
> realloc is used, because this sometimes means touching the data as 
> well.

Change--how?  Can you give us some quantitative idea?