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Re: malloc


"Lewin A.R.W. Edwards" wrote:
> 
> Quick question: Does anyone here (using 1.3.1) have problems using malloc?
> 
> I'm using the Cirrus 7212 and malloc seems to be very random in behavior -
> sometimes it will succeed on a few allocations and then fail on one more.
> Then, it will succeed on some (larger!) allocations in the same session.

I found some problems in the memory allocator a while back and fixed them.
Alas I also redesigned the memory allocation system at the same time, so it
wouldn't be easy to backport the patches, although you could maybe try -
the new version is in anonymous CVS under services/memalloc/common

Jifl
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