Message-ID: <3482837D.8F1F5D0A@eik.bme.hu>
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 10:29:33 +0100
From: "Dr. András Sólyom" <solyom AT eik DOT bme DOT hu>
Organization: TU Budapest
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: djgpp <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Alternate malloc?
References: <199711291657 DOT LAA17674 AT delorie DOT com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Precedence: bulk

DJ Delorie wrote:

> All the malloc*.c files are my own invention.  No sense replacing
> BSD's malloc with yet another copyrighted malloc.

AFAIK the BSD malloc is not else than the one presented by Knuth in 'The art
of computer programming'. Is it not true?

> I don't know how
> they compare with other published malloc packages.  Try them and see.

I have tried some of your malloc files on my Pentium machine and the tests
run. I did not make a systematic check though. One of my programs run out of
memory misteriously (as I have 64 Mbytes of physical RAM and some 300 Mbytes
of free disk space) with the original malloc, so I replaced the malloc in it
with the one in malloc6.c but the program crashed with GFP soon after it
started. I am still investigating the cause of the crash.


Andras