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Karl M Hegbloom <karlheg@inetarena.com> writes:

>>>>>> "Hrvoje" == Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

Hrvoje> Should we add the same stuff to XEmacs?  What *is*
Hrvoje> DOUG_LEA_MALLOC anyway?  We need a malloc guru here.

I think we should.

>  I'm not a malloc guru... but I know that the Doug Lea malloc is
>  what's in the Linux glibc-2.

The Doug Lea malloc was first introduced in Linux libc-5.3.  It has some
very desirable properties not the least of which is that incorrectly
coded applications tend to drop core immediately rather than go silently
crazy. :-)

