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- From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
- Subject: Re: [386bsd] GNU malloc in favor of BSD malloc in libc - shall we vote?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.200319.9686@netcom.com>
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- References: <JKH.92Dec31154004@whisker.lotus.ie> <1993Jan1.102032.8413@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 20:03:19 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan1.102032.8413@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
- >In article <JKH.92Dec31154004@whisker.lotus.ie> jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
- >>I say we petition Bill to use GNU malloc in preference. Most folks aren't
- >>going to know enough (or dare) to replace malloc in libc themselves, but
- >>they will notice the very painful state of affairs that trying to work
- >>in a low memory environment brings; why not spare them the pain?
- >
- >If we are going to vote, I vote for one of the PD malloc implementations
- >as opposed to the GNU copyleft implementation. There are many reasons,
- >some stated by Lynne and Bill, for keeping 386BSD salable without sources;
- >GNU copyleft ruins this.
- >
- >
- > Terry Lambert
- > terry@icarus.weber.edu
- > terry_lambert@novell.com
- >---
- >Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
- >or previous employers.
- >--
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- > "I have an 8 user poetic license" - me
- > Get the 386bsd FAQ from agate.berkeley.edu:/pub/386BSD/386bsd-0.1/unofficial
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-
- If anyone can point me to a good PD malloc which can help me for X stuff, I
- will appreciated it :-)
-
- Happy New Year,
- Amancio Hasty
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