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- From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: [386bsd] GNU malloc in favor of BSD malloc in libc - shall we vote?
- Message-ID: <JKH.93Jan3165528@whisker.lotus.ie>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 16:55:28 GMT
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- Organization: Lotus Development Ireland
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- In-Reply-To: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk's message of 1 Jan 93 06: 21:48 GMT
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- It's unfortunate that GNU ld relies on malloc(0) to work. I've modified
- GNU malloc to round zero size requests to 1, if STRICT_MALLOC isn't
- defined. It's not a good solution, by any means, but it beats (for the
- moment) tracking down the erroneous behavior in GNU ld.
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- Jordan
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- Jordan Hubbard Lotus Development Ireland jkh@whisker.lotus.ie
- I DO NOT SPEAK FOR LOTUS - IT HAS PLENTY OF LAWYERS TO DO THAT FOR IT ALREADY
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