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Article #11183Re: memalign (can it be simulated?)
From: J. Brian Waters
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1989 17:35
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1989 17:35
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In article <0164.AA0164@julie>, mcr@julie.UUCP (Michael Richardson) writes:
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> I have discovered that the Manx malloc is a fake - is uses a 40K
> arena which is allocated at run time regardless of how much malloc'ing
How did you determine this? The source to Manx's malloc shows it calling
lmalloc which in turn calls AllocMem with the size of your request plus room
for a tag to allow the clean up routine to free it on exit.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!iuvax!bsu-cs!jbwaters From: jbwaters@bsu-cs.UUCP (J. Brian Waters) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: memalign (can it be simulated?) Summary: are you sure Manx malloc does this Message-ID: <5471@bsu-cs.UUCP> Date: 26 Jan 89 17:35:03 GMT References: <0164.AA0164@julie> Organization: The Binary Bin Lines: 12