Re: No GNU malloc in glibc 2.2 ???
>>>> "sb" == SL Baur
<steve(a)turbolinux.co.jp> writes:
sb> Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
>>>>>> "sb" == SL Baur
<steve(a)turbolinux.co.jp> writes:
sb> What's up with the attached malloc
report? Why doesn't the GNU libc
sb> malloc work in Alpha Linux?
> Perhaps because of this in m/alpha.h:
> #ifdef LINUX
> # define SYSTEM_MALLOC
> #endif
> which is derived perhaps from this:
> 1998-02-18 SL Baur <steve(a)altair.xemacs.org>
> * m/alpha.h:
> * unexelf.c: Synched with Emacs 20.2.
> From Aki Vehtari <Aki.Vehtari(a)hut.fi>
> s&m is evil.
sb> Ugh. However, on Linux SYSTEM_MALLOC _is_ GNU malloc so there's more to
sb> it than just s&m.
You may be right that there is an assumption somewhere that GNU malloc
and system malloc are separate. On the other hand, our own GNU malloc
may have drifted from the one in glibc over time.
Steve, you're the one who was most involved with frobbing choice of
mallocs at configure time. You're also the one who actually has a
Linux/Alpha system. So you're the one who should be submitting the
patch. Right?
Martin