From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Larmour To: "Lewin A.R.W. Edwards" Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [ECOS] malloc Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 19:55:00 -0000 Message-id: <3A7B7FC9.C776EF82@redhat.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010201142717.00ab96e0@larwe.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-02/msg00037.html "Lewin A.R.W. Edwards" wrote: > > Quick question: Does anyone here (using 1.3.1) have problems using malloc? > > I'm using the Cirrus 7212 and malloc seems to be very random in behavior - > sometimes it will succeed on a few allocations and then fail on one more. > Then, it will succeed on some (larger!) allocations in the same session. I found some problems in the memory allocator a while back and fixed them. Alas I also redesigned the memory allocation system at the same time, so it wouldn't be easy to backport the patches, although you could maybe try - the new version is in anonymous CVS under services/memalloc/common Jifl -- Red Hat, Rustat House, Clifton Road, Cambridge, UK. Tel: +44 (1223) 271062 Maybe this world is another planet's Hell -Aldous Huxley || Opinions==mine