On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <14100.61923.427423.153...@avalon.east>, Anthony Kimball writes:
> >
> >: > All I want is that a program gets NULL from malloc if there is no memory
> >: > available. I find that to be a very fundamental thing about malloc.
> >
> >: Do you have a solution? We don't.
> >
> >Make an sbrk variant which will pre-allocate backing store.
> >setenv MALLOC_PREALLOCATE
> >
> >Not so hard.
> 
> 1. Demonstrate the need.

I'm not doing this, damnit ;)

> 
> 2. Implement it

Add another character to the malloc options there already. When something is
allocated, touch the first char to be '\0'. Implementation done.

> 
> 3. Send patches.

Part of 2.

> 
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> Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
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