On 2014-04-09, Theo de Raadt <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org> wrote: >>Is there any special reason why there is no /etc/malloc.conf by >>default (linking to, say, 'S') then? > > Yes, there's a real good reason -- too much portable software > breaks.
No, the performance impact of the stricter malloc options means that developers and bulk builders don't want to enable them, so we don't actually know what breakage will result. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de