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From: Morten Skjelland <Morten.Skjelland@chembio.ntnu.no>
Date: 25 Sep 1997 12:22:55 +0200
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SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:

| >  Isn't gnumalloc able to "deallocate" memory?
| 
| Not in the sense you're thinking of.  Do you have the relocating
| allocator enabled?  (See the Installation file you got after building
| XEmacs).

So XEmacs, even with GNU malloc, can't deallocate memory?

From 'Installation':

  Should XEmacs use the GNU version of malloc?            yes
  Should XEmacs use the relocating allocator for buffers? yes

This is on Solaris 2.5.1/sparc.

Morten
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