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

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