From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
To: Rical Jasan <ricaljasan@pacific.net>,
Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add note on MALLOC_MMAP_* environment variables
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 11:30:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7d130361-6bc1-dff6-f9c0-bdd51fc43fc3@sourceware.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e2a1ff2-3d9b-2559-a576-58e432388ba1@pacific.net>
On Wednesday 26 October 2016 04:56 PM, Rical Jasan wrote:
> On 10/25/2016 09:15 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>>>> +If this parameter is not set, the default value is set as 128 KB and the
>> Should this be 128KiB?
>
> I don't think binary computers count with 10 fingers. At any rate, we
> don't have any ibi's AFAICS:
>
> $ grep -Pi '\d[kmgt]i?b\b' manual/*.texi
It's the other way around AFAIK, i.e. KiB == 1024 and KB == 1000. Looks
like there are references to kB in code comments, so I'm fine with
changing it to that, or if you want to be absolutely clear, I could just
make it 131072 bytes ;)
Siddhesh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-26 11:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-24 14:08 [PATCH 0/2] Malloc manual cleanups Siddhesh Poyarekar
2016-10-24 14:08 ` [PATCH 2/2] Document the M_ARENA_* mallopt parameters Siddhesh Poyarekar
2016-10-25 7:51 ` Rical Jasan
2016-10-25 21:55 ` DJ Delorie
2016-10-26 5:42 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2016-10-24 14:08 ` [PATCH 1/2] Add note on MALLOC_MMAP_* environment variables Siddhesh Poyarekar
2016-10-26 4:18 ` Carlos O'Donell
2016-10-26 7:58 ` Michael Kerrisk
2016-10-26 9:47 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2016-10-26 11:26 ` Rical Jasan
2016-10-26 11:30 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar [this message]
2016-10-26 12:04 ` Rical Jasan
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-10-10 17:26 Siddhesh Poyarekar
2016-10-10 17:33 ` DJ Delorie
2016-10-10 17:42 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2016-10-11 6:20 ` Michael Kerrisk
2016-10-11 18:19 ` DJ Delorie
2016-10-11 19:03 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2016-10-12 11:57 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2016-10-17 19:40 ` Carlos O'Donell
2016-10-11 19:35 ` Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
2016-10-17 16:13 ` Carlos O'Donell
2016-10-17 16:16 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
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