malloc changes

Kevin L. Kane kevin.kane at gmail.com
Thu Feb 2 17:01:55 PST 2006


this stuff is all optional and off by default, the default behavior of
this patch should be roughly equivalent to the old malloc except that
it doesnt use brk/sbrk...  when you turn on guard pages and free page
protection(options G and F) you WILL see segfaults.  I know xmms has
issues for sure.

-Kevin

On 2/2/06, Emil Mikulic <emikulic at xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A better explanation:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/87489
>






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